Example sentences of "come by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all customers are expected to come by road — new mooring points and landscaping on the neighbouring Grand Union Canal welcome any barges that may need re-stocking . |
| 2 | So , if you 're still determined to come by car , just follow the parking signs . |
| 3 | She says today because I 've got the little boy with me I 've got to come by car unfortunately , but it 's far quicker on a bicycle and I do do it yes ! |
| 4 | The new site , because of its dependence on steam , needed regular coal supplies and , as the railway had not by this date reached Bourton , coal supplies had to come by cart from either Adlestrop Station , some six miles away , or Cheltenham , sixteen miles away . |
| 5 | Coal and flour supplies still had to come by cart , the flour deliveries to Cheltenham being transported by a three horse team and covered wagon . |
| 6 | The other main obstacle in the way of enjoyment is Aviemore , but unless you need to buy some chips , or have to come by train then you can just close your eyes as you pass by it . |
| 7 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 8 | Most pineapples sold in Britain have come by sea , which means we are sometimes at risk from being offered unripe or partly ripened specimens . |
| 9 | The tunnelling was necessitated by having to rediscover the channel of the watercourse after it had come by pipe from the millpond above and turned the wheel . |
| 10 | The Prince landed in Norfolk , Virginia , on 30 March 1837 , having come by way of Brazil , since the French authorities wanted to be sure of his whereabouts for six months at least . |
| 11 | If he had come by car , then she would n't have to endure the sight of him in all that black leather gear looking like something from Star Wars . |
| 12 | Raw materials and labour come by ship , rail or road . |
| 13 | ‘ Has anything come by carrier pigeon , then ? ’ |
| 14 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |
| 15 | Apparently they had come by train the previous night to the nearby station of Fidenza , from various camps in southern Italy . |
| 16 | Those who had come by carriage had dismissed their drivers with instructions not to return until early evening and now they were stranded , having to decide whether to wait or walk . |
| 17 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 18 | With a fine disregard for geography she decided that if the Germans came by sea they would land at the Pier Head . |
| 19 | and erm there were all sorts of funny stories and erm some of them not quite so funny about erm the way that the children and erm mothers from Dagenham came by sea and landed at , at Felixstowe |
| 20 | He came by sea with five galleons and established his party , including the archbishop of Arles and the provost of Maguelonne and other clerks and nobles , on an island between Porto and Ostia . |
| 21 | The railway connection no longer dominated the operation and most of the customers for both hotels and ferries came by road . |
| 22 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 23 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 24 | If you came by day , not knowing what you came for , … |
| 25 | Visitors came by air and by road to congratulate and to celebrate . |
| 26 | The cattle landed at Holyhead , Birkenhead and Fishguard ; and they came by rail to Norwich . |
| 27 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |
| 28 | They came by coach , car and on foot from all corners of the country , and from France with a team from Faverolles once again supporting the event . |
| 29 | The invaders came by river . |
| 30 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |