Example sentences of "[vb pp] away [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 2 | It 's come away from the zip er er I do n't know whether it 's er |
| 3 | Mr Widmer praised the minister for his ‘ sympathetic attitude ’ and said the company had come away from the meeting re-assured that it would not be forced to move . |
| 4 | Plaster had come away from the walls from ceiling to floor , and along the lower part the bared cement , originally grey , was stained yellow and smelt of urine . |
| 5 | A path wound away from the house , leading through the ridges and furrows of fields long left to nature . |
| 6 | The road wound away from the Martin farm into the outskirts of the village . |
| 7 | As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar . |
| 8 | Although earnings prospects all over Europe are still excellent the balance has now been slightly tipped away from the equity markets . |
| 9 | The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree . |
| 10 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 11 | The church was so vast and empty that the vicar 's words rolled away into the gloom . |
| 12 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 13 | The treatment plan is not equipped to deal effectively with waste of such high chemical toxicity , and so much of it is passed out in the Yellow Creek to be carried away into the Cumberland River , with the result that the creek has become severely polluted . |
| 14 | Experts feared yesterday that an over-excited crewman aboard the US carrier Saratoga got carried away during the war games — and launched two Sea Sparrows by mistake . |
| 15 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 16 | MARTIN PIPE was last night refusing to get carried away about the Gold Cup prospects of Rushing Wild . |
| 17 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 18 | Simply , he had been carried away on the potency of his own vision , and come to believe himself infallible . |
| 19 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 20 | The secret is not to get carried away with the yumminess of it all and order too much . |
| 21 | It is a contract of insurance , it 's not an open-ended situation , and , yes , I think that people probably do get carried away with the euphoria of buying the vehicle . |
| 22 | But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all . |
| 23 | But do not get too carried away with the idea of a gimmicky photograph . |
| 24 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 25 | It 's all too easy to get carried away with the business of everyday life , and to put your own requirements tot he bottom of the pile . |
| 26 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 27 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 29 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 30 | However , do n't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem . |