Example sentences of "got by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I got by on brute force and ignorance till I learnt a bit . ’ |
| 2 | But I got by . |
| 3 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | It was a little ambitious for her , but the audience knew it and she got by . |
| 5 | She cried , because tears are cheap ; and then she 'd stopped , and got by , because nobody gives you anything in this world . |
| 6 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 7 | Basically , however , British cities ‘ got by ’ for a surprisingly long time . |
| 8 | This forecast rate of increase simply did not materialize , and once again British cities got by with incremental adjustments , while an accelerated process of decentralization helped to transfer traffic flows from the centre to a series of nodes within the city region . |
| 9 | To say more would have been to overstate the case , but as a first preview it got by . |
| 10 | Well I did n't know Spanish , but I got by with the Italian , you know , I had , I had once , . |