Example sentences of "away by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This account had it that de Castelnau was first turned away by the orderly officer , saying that on no account was the Commander-in-Chief to be disturbed . |
| 2 | The kernel of truth in this is almost washed away by the wishful thinking . |
| 3 | We can get carried away by the sheer attractiveness of the deal or temptation and overlook that priority . |
| 4 | Under duress from external events , she practised collective Cabinet government in something approaching the traditional form , though David Howell , at that time Secretary of State for Transport , cautions against being carried away by the collective theme : |
| 5 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 6 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 7 | The invective she 'd rehearsed hovered on her lips , her breath momentarily taken away by the utter gall of the man . |
| 8 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 9 | Instead of this , the impression was given by ministers that their previous doubts about the Maastricht Treaty had been swept away by the Danish vote . |
| 10 | Three minutes later he brilliantly beat three men and found John Van ‘ t Schip , whose low shot was deflected away by the desperate boot of Jeff Hopkins . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm usually away by the second try . |
| 12 | The lock itself seemed good , though wrenched away by the forced entry . |
| 13 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 14 | The existence of the photographs , all the sordid aspects of the man 's life were rinsed away by the formalized prose . |
| 15 | One more failure on her part ; one more life lost ; one more friend pulled away by the black tide . |
| 16 | Was that a faint shouting he heard , away by the outer wall ? |
| 17 | ‘ Tell Luke I 'm blown away by the new poem . |
| 18 | All that 's left of me is a tiny cone-shaped pile of dust — and that 's blown away by the whirling wind of the dance . |
| 19 | When an insect moults , the dorsal arms of the tentorium are largely dissolved away by the moulting fluid , the tentorium splits medially , much of the central body is dissolved and the remainder is pulled out as four separate pieces , one from each tentorial pit ( Sharplin , 1965 ) . |
| 20 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 21 | ‘ I know it 's a cliche , ’ she said , standing with David 's hand in the crook of her arm , ‘ but it really does look as though it were floating , as though it might be washed away by the next tide . ’ |
| 22 | For a moment she had lain stunned , then had vowed to herself she would be out and away by the next morning . |
| 23 | At the start of the Second World War , when he was just 15 , he was taken away by the German army . |
| 24 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |