Example sentences of "[was/were] carry away [prep] [art] [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 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 5 | Byrne was carried away from the ring unconscious and died three days later without coming out of his coma . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |