snatch away

Now all his plans for the future had been snatched away.

And now his single opportunity to get to meet a girl had been snatched away.

Many of the children will have been given hope, only to see that snatched away.

One part cannot be snatched away from the other parts.

Jim couldn't be snatched away again, not after all he had been through already.

Another hour and you might have been snatched away beyond our finding.

Today, it is as if that future has been snatched away from them.

Would he hear a step behind him and have time to snatch away his hands?

Instead, though, it seemed as if she had returned to us for a moment, only to be snatched away again.

In other words, the one piece of the Bush tax cut that probably did help the economy last year is about to be snatched away.

Eating as though it might be snatched away from him.

He snatched away with the title at the end of the season.

I mean, having a husband that all the other women want to snatch away from you.

What would it be like to see your whole family snatched away in the course of an afternoon?

Death has snatched away a young person from her midst.

He found a suitable room – only to have it snatched away.

He didn't run crying to the press when his position was snatched away from him.

It was as if the ground beneath my feet had been snatched away.

They had supposed an easy victory and saw it snatched away.

"And it was snatched away from you all at once," says her sister.

I pulled the covers over my head, only to have them snatched away.

Tom had snatched away his hand, and was looking a good deal confused.

After all he had gone through, to have Joan snatched away from him at the moment of success.

Then the bottle was snatched away, not by the man who had passed it to him.

Having finished that particular picture, it was snatched away from me and sent off to America.