Example sentences of "[was/were] swallowed up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 2 | Any plans Simon had made for dealing with Gazzer were swallowed up by his frenzied rage at Gazzer 's unexpected defiance . |
| 3 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 4 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 5 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 6 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 7 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 8 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 9 | All her apprehensions were swallowed up in excitement , but then she did not have the responsibility of a wife and family . |
| 10 | Very quickly , however , such preoccupations were swallowed up in vastly greater ones . |
| 11 | The men were pitched overboard and they too were swallowed up beneath the heavy iron bottoms of the lighters . |
| 12 | The lost island of Atlantis was swallowed up in his wrath . |
| 13 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 14 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 15 | His existence was swallowed up in the gloom and horror of the entire country — he did not , in other words , lead a private life in the sense in which that was true before the war . |
| 16 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 17 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 18 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 19 | .. of warriors was swallowed up by the earth , and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished . ’ |
| 20 | .. of warriors was swallowed up by the earth , and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately most of the extra cash grabbed was swallowed up by bad debts . |
| 22 | $49.8m ( 18% ) was swallowed up by channel margins , interface development tools accounted for $39.2m ( 14% ) , services $21.7m ( 8% ) , desktop environments and graphical user interfaces $9.23m ( 3% ) and personal computer X servers $6.8m ( 2% ) . |
| 23 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 24 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 25 | The jangling of his chains and bells was swallowed up by the blackness . |
| 26 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 27 | At Grange Park , Hampshire , built c .1670 for the lawyer , Sir Robert Henley , Samwell 's house was swallowed up by the neo-classical remodelling by William Wilkins [ q.v. ] , but despite alterations and the threat of demolition , the shell of his house substantially survives , concealed within the later work . |
| 28 | It was swallowed up by London Transport , who owned the site , and became part of South Kensington underground station . |
| 29 | Cockerton had lost its individual council in 1915 when it was swallowed up by Darlington Corporation which had promised much , but delivered little . |