Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] away by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 4 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 5 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 6 | This river gets its name from the time of the first exploration of the island , when some of Zarco 's men were nearly swept away by the river but were rescued by other members of the party in a small boat . |
| 7 | Never before had he seen so many people starving and so many crops dying , their dried remains being simply blown away by the wind . |
| 8 | The eroded material is usually moved away by the action of longshore drift ( see below ) , which , in England , moves material mainly from north to south on the east coast and from west to east on the south coast . |
| 9 | The earth is rapidly carried away by the water but the larger stones are moved only occasionally when the rivers are in flood . |
| 10 | The kernel of truth in this is almost washed away by the wishful thinking . |
| 11 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 12 | So popular government was more or less firmly established from 461 BC until it was finally swept away by the Macedonian conquerors in 322 BC , to be replaced by the kind of restricted franchise which its opponents had always preferred . |
| 13 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |