Examples of flown

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
All three surveys were flown in the 1960s and the data were recorded originally in analogue form.
To our knowledge none of them had ever flown an actual airliner before.
Insects were flown in the laboratory during the day.
A vast crowd of many thousands was fired upon by artillery and a helicopter gunship flown by members of the presidential guard.
Why no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field.
The most plausible explanation that emerged was that one of the pilots had gone berserk, seized the controls, and flown the aircraft into the sea.
On our view, it is generally unwarranted to impute to ordinary speakers such a high-flown reliance on a "best theory" of anything.
He says he has flown the world to find you.
If we had flown, we might have arrived there earlier.
The past few years have flown by, and 2006 was particularly busy for us.
There is a large literature on social movements, which tends to divide between high-flown theorizing and case-studies.
Why no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field, but people often say they do.
If we stick at this level, these sound little more than rather high-flown sentiments dignified by the claims of their divine origin.
In tracing the wetting of the shamrock (whether refrigerated, flown in or sham), it does more than whet the appetite.
The insect has flown into the medium and survives there forever as a pother of lip movement and substituted metrical feet.
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