Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Clare Lafferty reports , many were eventually turned away , because they were too young . |
| 2 | One night all these goods were secretly taken away and disappeared for good . |
| 3 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 4 | They savagely plucked feathers from it and were so carried away by their onslaught that they even continued attacking when the stuffed bird was held in the experimenter 's hand , close to his face . |
| 5 | And they were so carried away , they forgot to put on the handbrake . |
| 6 | But his affections were always specific ; they were not given away to all-comers . |
| 7 | They were not turned away . |
| 8 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 9 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 10 | As was seen in the previous section , the legal ingredients of the offence were successively whittled away so that public alarm became of relative insignificance , although the offence was apt to be charged in cases of group disorder . |
| 11 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 12 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 13 | These feelings , Lisa decided later , were easily explained away . |
| 14 | The Night Goblins in front were easily driven away , but just as soon as a gap appeared and the Dwarfs caught sight of the gate more Night Goblins charged in to hold them . |
| 15 | They were just carried away , ’ said the 63-year-old former sales manager from South Humberside . |
| 16 | European stations showed signs of developing such communities in the nineteenth century , but they were usually swept away . |
| 17 | Odd words and phrases came to him but , like sticks dropped into rapids , they were quickly whisked away . |
| 18 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 19 | Over the next two years the powers of the papacy were gradually whittled away by successive parliamentary statutes ; all papal financial exactions were withheld ; papal dispensations were invalidated ; and papal consecration of bishops and the right of appeal to Rome were both declared unnecessary . |
| 20 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 21 | Sabah , aged 28 , and his brother , ‘ Abd al-Karim , aged 21 , were both taken away from their home in al-Fahahil on 7 March by seven or eight men in masks and civilian clothes and one in military uniform . |
| 22 | We were both carried away by our feelings . |
| 23 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 24 | Lewin and Nnah were also led away for their own safety . |
| 25 | Five days later , on 6 November , her younger brothers and sisters — seven in all — were also taken away . |
| 26 | They were later called away to deal with a house which was ablaze . |
| 27 | The bodies of the 11 were later taken away by soldiers and secretly buried or otherwise disposed of . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Babies were often sent away to be nursed in rural parishes where they were ill fed , overcrowded , and quieted with opiates ( see Fildes 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Any fears or doubts she might have had were immediately swept away by his overwhelming joy and pleasure . |