Example sentences of "swallowed up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases the man 's pay packet is swallowed up at the weekend , when rent and other bills are paid and weekend food is bought , so the Family Allowance paid on Tuesdays provides some food for the family until the next pay day . |
| 2 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 3 | The men were pitched overboard and they too were swallowed up beneath the heavy iron bottoms of the lighters . |
| 4 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 5 | He took his senior men aside at lunchtime for a tour d'horizon on ‘ the wider implications of the project for European unity , and when the Cabinet resumed matters of cost and technical detail which had caused objections that morning were swallowed up in the wider prime ministerial perspective ’ . |
| 6 | The story may have a basis in fact ; it is possible there was a prehistoric dwelling here that is now swallowed up in the mud at the bottom of the lake . |
| 7 | That said , the Vet scene has charged his zest for running which otherwise might have been swallowed up in the 40-something concentration on family , career and mortgage . |
| 8 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 9 | ‘ Their problems may be acute , and there is a risk of being swallowed up in the mass of an adult ward . |
| 10 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 11 | His existence was swallowed up in the gloom and horror of the entire country — he did not , in other words , lead a private life in the sense in which that was true before the war . |
| 12 | Educated in one class , politically affiliated to another , Nizan was ultimately swallowed up in the no man 's land situated between both . |
| 13 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 14 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 15 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 16 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 17 | Wine acidity , he explains , is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots . |
| 18 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 19 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 20 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 21 | It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city . |
| 22 | The piece of membrane where all of this action takes place breaks off and is swallowed up by the cell . |
| 23 | .. of warriors was swallowed up by the earth , and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished . ’ |
| 24 | .. of warriors was swallowed up by the earth , and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished . ’ |
| 25 | How easy it is to allow life to be swallowed up by the daily round and so to miss that pause to reflect and to take one 's bearings . |
| 26 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 27 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 28 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 29 | The jangling of his chains and bells was swallowed up by the blackness . |
| 30 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |