Example sentences of "away by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 2 | This is because the adjacent peat , as it is drained and dried out , wastes away by a process of oxidation on exposure to the atmosphere . |
| 3 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |
| 4 | One experienced game tracker claimed that it was possible to get to within 40 or 50 yards before spotting a zebra under these conditions , and even then it only gave itself away by a small movement such as the swish of its tail or the sudden turn of its head . |
| 5 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 6 | The greatest deprivation was German sausage , made more intense for one boy who had brought a whole salami all the way from Vienna only to have it thrown away by a Dovercourt helper ‘ because it did n't smell right ’ . |
| 7 | Anyone who kills or traps an animal after being warned away by a Brown Man will become very dizzy and lose all sense of direction . |
| 8 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 9 | We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city . |
| 10 | Nothing if not bold , Welles opens with a funeral procession in which the bodies of Othello and Desdemona are borne away by a line of figures dramatically silhouetted against a pale sky , while Iago is led away in chains to be hoist aloft in a metal cage . |
| 11 | This is the way that major orchestras get their conductors — a young conductor earns his or her spurs in a small orchestra or opera house , only to be hired away by a larger one . |
| 12 | A dark cloud rose from Carey 's head and was swatted away by a wave ; it made a little slick that thinned and trailed out to sea . |
| 13 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 14 | Fairham swallowed hard as he saw another portion of the carcass cut away by a powerful blow . |
| 15 | The numbness was inched away by a mixture of anger and sorrow . |
| 16 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 17 | Patients who cost a lot might be turned away by a GP . |
| 18 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 19 | In the early eighteenth century Rudyerd was in business as a silk mercer in Ludgate Hill , London , when he was engaged by Captain John Lovel or Lovet , the lessee , to act as ‘ architect and surveyor ’ for a lighthouse on the Eddystone reef near Plymouth , to replace the one built by Henry Winstanley [ q.v. ] , which had been swept away by a storm in 1703 after only five years . |
| 20 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 21 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 22 | Non-resonant absorption of a photon , in which both surplus energy and surplus linear momentum are carried away by a photon of lower energy , is a much less favorable process . |
| 23 | After Books I and II , Satan 's magnificence is chipped away by a process of degradation . |
| 24 | The porter was tipped , Alain was in the driving seat , and she was being swept away by a complete stranger to a house she did n't know at all , far away from anyone who would help her . |
| 25 | His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger , at this open display of contempt . |
| 26 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 27 | African wind brings from the east was gone , washed away by a rainstorm during the night . |
| 28 | It was given an injection against shock and pain and it was taken away by a rejoicing owner . |
| 29 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 30 | The dog was pulled away by a neighbour and locked into a garage . |