Example sentences of "[be] [verb] away on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 2 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 3 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 4 | Yeah it 's jus well I 'm going away on the Thursday before Easter , so perhaps on the Wednesday morning |
| 5 | For instance , the classic tactic of demanding an adjournment should not be thrown away on a low level aim , such as ‘ let's have coffee ’ . |
| 6 | Short of the holocaust , when everything will be blown away on the wind of oblivion , there is no reason to believe that we will see the lights going down on capitalism in our lifetime . |
| 7 | Had her love of all these years been thrown away on a man who was incapable of loving in return ? |
| 8 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 9 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 10 | Pearce 's screams were borne away on the wind . |
| 11 | We are being swept away on a tide of picaresque Euromovies . |
| 12 | She looked back , and saw that Tante Héloise was being led away on the arm of the stout woman . |
| 13 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 14 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 15 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 16 | The South Ronaldsay children were taken away on the morning of Wednesday 27 February . |
| 17 | The headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) was searched by court officials and police on Nov. 19 ; papers were taken away on the orders of a judge investigating allegations that the PSOE had received illegal funds . |
| 18 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 19 | The usual area of wood has been dressed away on the upper edge of the body , in the name of player comfort . |
| 20 | Maybe it 's tucked away on a high shelf somewhere . ’ |
| 21 | It 's bubbling away on the hob there . ’ |
| 22 | The badly-damaged Toyota is taken away on a breakdown wagon after the head-on crash Picture : CLIFF BRETT |
| 23 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 24 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 25 | When he visited Ottery in August 1793 his brothers reluctantly agreed to help him ; but some of the money they supplied was frittered away on the journey back to Cambridge , and when he got there he discovered a host of forgotten debts . |
| 26 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 27 | It is known that the reliquary of Saint Winifred was taken away on the wagon that was loaded with timber for Ramsey , but no one has shown how this came about . |
| 28 | The vast paper factory was churning away on the site of Flaubert 's house . |
| 29 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |