Example sentences of "carry off [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 2 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |
| 3 | These pronouncements were not necessarily written down and so they might be carried off into oblivion by the winds of time . |
| 4 | Ansah was carried off with concussion at Luton on Saturday , but had a precautionary brain scan and reported fit this morning . |
| 5 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |