Example sentences of "carry away [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development .
2 Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations .
3 He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly .
4 A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds .
5 She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality .
6 Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need .
7 He had almost forgotten his previous dislike of Dickens , carried away by the opportunities for rhetoric that the Great Man was so unexpectedly granting him .
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