Example sentences of "[was/were] carry [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her words were carried away on the breeze , to join the tumult of sounds . |
| 2 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 3 | If this was the case and that principle was carried forward to the Act then the duty under the Act would be unexcludable . |
| 4 | The vestries that pre-dated the modern system of local government were sometimes centres of party political activity at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and this activity was carried forward into the town councils and other local bodies in Victorian England . |
| 5 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 6 | Byrne was carried away from the ring unconscious and died three days later without coming out of his coma . |
| 7 | Trainer Gilpin echoed that view when claiming after the race that Dillon had disobeyed his instructions — ‘ No doubt he was carried away by the excitement . ’ |
| 8 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 9 | The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) . |
| 10 | This principle was carried further by the House of Lords ' decision in Williams and Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 408 , which found that a wife who made a financial contribution to the purchase of a house acquires more than an interest in the proceeds of sale : she acquires an interest in the land itself , which can take effect as an overriding interest , in the case of registered land , under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ( g ) . |