Example sentences of "[be] drag [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 2 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 3 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 4 | We would not be able to see such a star because light from its surface would not reach us ; it would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational field . |
| 5 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 6 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |