Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 2 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 3 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 4 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 5 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |
| 6 | Instead new development has gradually gravitated away from North Shields and is now much nearer to Whitley Bay [ then a separate local authority ] . |
| 7 | The walls have turned a gruesome red-brown from the urine which has also eaten away at the wooden structure of one of the portals . |
| 8 | The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance . |
| 9 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 10 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 11 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 12 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 13 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 14 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 15 | And he cited two papers , co-authored by Derek Bryce-Smith , professor of organic chemistry at the University of Reading , as being the result of ‘ individual scientists who have got rather carried away in a flush of enthusiasm . ’ |
| 16 | The last point sounds simple but some organisations do become so carried away with logos and elaborate art work that well over half the area of the printed page is unavailable for typed material . |
| 17 | I will become so deeply interested in whatever I am doing … in whatever is going on around me … my mind will become completely distracted away from myself . |
| 18 | For we should not become too carried away by Labour 's changed face and tone of voice , nor too dazzled by the Peter Mandelson image-conjuring . |
| 19 | 1971 ) , the original convergence thesis itself has become somewhat modified away from an emphasis on a trend towards uniformity . |
| 20 | Never , never , never sort of , never get so carried away with your own position that you think that you are the only source and the fount of all wisdom on , on any particular story . |
| 21 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 22 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |
| 23 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 24 | Sometime back in 1975 — the date franked on the envelopes — the front line moved across the postal sorting office and the employees must have simply run away during their shift . |
| 25 | But do not get too carried away with the idea of a gimmicky photograph . |
| 26 | Do n't get your hopes too high or let yourself get too carried away after all you know what people are like . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is dangerous to get too carried away with the similarities since they can blind even the best researchers to new observations . |
| 28 | Not really no , so what we 're doing now , we do n't want to get too carried away with one , one title , we 've got to try and find things to say how we 're going to achieve it . |
| 29 | There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult . |
| 30 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |