Example sentences of "carried off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ .
2 A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture .
3 At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital .
4 A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night .
5 He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night .
6 Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses .
7 To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) .
8 Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China .
9 Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher .
10 MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg .
11 He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders .
12 Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring .
13 Rowledge sliced a penalty wide of the target before having better luck with a kick just inside the half-way line , and there was a real setback for the visitors when Cook was carried off with a leg injury .
14 Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury .
15 Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes .
16 Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off .
17 Smith was virtually carried off with an ankle injury , Mardenborough has a knee problem and Cusack had stitches for a facial injury .
18 ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’
19 The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire .
20 Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property .
21 Batty , who was carried off after a tackle by Stewart Robson , added : ‘ I am just relieved I have n't broken it . ’
22 The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision .
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