Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You simply stood by the grill and never took your eyes off it until it was the colour you wanted . |
| 2 | Even in those days , the South Tyne had good runs of salmon and we often stood by the weir at Haltwhistle in September , watching salmon fighting their way upstream . |
| 3 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 4 | They mainly lived by the sea , making the crossing to Liamuiga with catches of lambie conch and spiny lobster , parrot- and butterfly- and damsel-fish from the shady eaves of the coral reef , sea urchins and grouper and eel , to exchange against cloth and vessels and other useful goods they did not make themselves as yet . |
| 5 | Within this regime , as it already existed by the end of the Civil War , the salient features were the prominent , but in no sense governing role of the FET ; the restoration of the Catholic Church to a position of monopoly in education and of powerful cultural influence ; the ruthless repression of all forms of opposition ; and above all , the unassailable position and total dominance of Franco himself . |