Example sentences of "blown [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well might a poem of that time depict the good ship of state being blown along by the prayers filling its sails . |
| 2 | Sometimes it gets blown along by the wind . |
| 3 | ‘ All the stained glass windows at the front of the bar were blown in by the blast . |
| 4 | The latest straws in the wind have been blown in by the bank 's disposal of its merchant banking arm , Charterhouse , last week for £235 million . |
| 5 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 6 | Left : Ladies winner Fabiola Rueda has her Legionnaire-style cap blown off by the wind |
| 7 | Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast . |
| 8 | The bridge , named after Francis Joseph 's empress , was blown up by the retreating Germans in 1944 and the present structure dates from the early 1960s . |
| 9 | There is even talk of rebuilding the Kaiser 's Schloss , damaged in the war and blown up by the communists in 1950 . |
| 10 | Wellington wrote in his dispatch : ‘ Major-General Mackinnon was unfortunately blown up by the accidental explosion of one of the enemy 's expense magazines , close to the breach . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Beautiful Miss Clare Mallender blown up by the IRA in mistake for Mr Dysart. 'ighly thought of . |
| 12 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 13 | On Dec. 31 , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi was reported to have said that the Boeing might have been blown up by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in retaliation for Libya 's disclosures to the United Kingdom government of its former IRA links . |
| 14 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 15 | IT is five years since 11 civilians were blown up by the IRA bomb at Enniskillen 's Remembrance Day Service . |
| 16 | Someone else was blown out by the cool-warm gale , tottering into her as the car howled away . |
| 17 | The comforting blue flame of the pilot light was dead , blown out by the gusting wind of the night before . |
| 18 | He preached to the World Scout Jamboree and was blamed by the Daily Telegraph for reading his sermon to a multitude of boys and that the notes were too visible when they were blown about by the wind . |
| 19 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 20 | Her hair is blown about by the wind , for it is cropped like a charity girl 's : her arms are bare servile arms , touched with redness and roughness : she carries a pail in either hand . |
| 21 | The rain fell in tiny , miserable droplets that were blown about by the wind . |
| 22 | Then there are the heavy cargo barges puttering this way and that , languid helmsmen at their sterns , eager dogs , all blown about by the wind , tongues lolling , in the prow . |