Example sentences of "have been blown away " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The front has been blown away , a wall is keeling over and the ceiling has been badly damaged .
2 Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ?
3 God , Alec thought , half the slates must have been blown away .
4 Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away .
5 In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again .
6 By the end of June , observers on the mainland of Sumatra reported that all the higher parts of Perboewetan had been blown away , and that a second eruption column was now rising from the centre of the island .
7 Not a vestige remained of the cone Perboewetan , and the whole of the northern part of the cone Rakata had been blown away , leaving a semi-vertical vertical cliff .
8 One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell .
9 The back of Montague 's head had been blown away , but his face still wore an idiot 's grin , as if he were laughing in his sleep , mouth wide open .
10 Rebus and Osvaldo had been blown away from each other some three metres .
11 Most of his face had been blown away and he had fractures of his skull , said Mr Taylor .
12 The entire shop front had been blown away and the ceiling was badly damaged .
13 They were protected from trampling or from modification from any source other than weathering , and some protection was provided against wind , but despite this most of the bones have been blown away .
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