Example sentences of "blown away " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 2 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 3 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
| 4 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I would be shocked , but not altogether surprised , if one day the spirit of the times , which has so recently blown away apartheid , communism and the Berlin wall , did away with the Royal Family as well . |
| 6 | This trust can be blown away or eroded . |
| 7 | By the end of June , observers on the mainland of Sumatra reported that all the higher parts of Perboewetan had been blown away , and that a second eruption column was now rising from the centre of the island . |
| 8 | Not a vestige remained of the cone Perboewetan , and the whole of the northern part of the cone Rakata had been blown away , leaving a semi-vertical vertical cliff . |
| 9 | Frequently , too , there are major structural changes to the volcano , with a large part of it being blown away or collapsing to form a gaping crater , up to several kilometres across . |
| 10 | In Vulcanian eruptions , such a plug may be blown away by repeated explosions , after which lavas may flow away quietly , or if the magma is very viscous , and keeps on coming , explosions will continue . |
| 11 | God , Alec thought , half the slates must have been blown away . |
| 12 | If it is lying in the open , free of vegetation , it may become weathered ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) but a more likely outcome for small mammal bone is that it will either be stepped on and broken beyond recognition or simply be blown away by wind . |
| 13 | They were protected from trampling or from modification from any source other than weathering , and some protection was provided against wind , but despite this most of the bones have been blown away . |
| 14 | 56 An advertisement from The Sound Waves — demonstrating the dangers of distortion from using the wrong needle , or the benefits of being ‘ blown away ’ by use of the right needle ! |
| 15 | Standing by the old timber ponds at Clapton , another of his childhood swimming holes , he had felt his tension being blown away by the eternal winds of the Severn . |
| 16 | In the 1940s , a pattern of meteorological events similar to those of recent months resulted in millions of tonnes of topsoil being blown away in a series of devastating dust storms , and these storms are now being repeated . |
| 17 | In an infamous storm on 7th January , 1839 , which sank many boats in the Firth , Clytus was blown away from her moorings in Troon harbour and went aground on Barassie beach . |
| 18 | On LP this never sounded particularly impressive but the transfer to CD on DG ‘ Galleria ’ ( ) has blown away the sonic cobwebs to reveal a blazing treasure and a worthy comparison for his incandescent Bruckner 4 with the same orchestra ( Decca ) . |
| 19 | By Tuesday 20th Bob had blown away so at 5.30am we heard the clang of the chow bell to awaken us and we made our preparations to get underway . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | DO N'T BE BLOWN AWAY |
| 22 | I went into the garden and I found the washing had blown away . |
| 23 | Come on , man , 250,000 people got BLOWN AWAY ! |
| 24 | ‘ If they are glass , or paste , or any part of them are , or any one of them , someone will probably have blown away Simon Cormack 's life . ’ |
| 25 | In flat calm conditions , this effect can be clearly seen , since the exhaust smoke will be observed to be blown away from the model by the rotors when out of ground effect ( Fig.5.6 ) , while it will tend to form a cloud under the helicopter , or even ‘ leak ’ up through the middle of the rotors , when in ground effect ( Fig. 5. 7 ) . |
| 26 | If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
| 27 | According to another report , many of the sheets of Hume 's Mystery of a Hansom Cab were blown away from a street barrow . |
| 28 | Ash and smoke blown away on the wind ! ’ |
| 29 | PREMIER John Major 's hopes for an end to his troubles were blown away within hours of the three-vote victory over Europe . |
| 30 | ‘ We are still searching for the money , but most of it was blown away . |