Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spike : Another word for the smash , where you jump up by the net and whack the ball down with your hand . |
| 2 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 3 | Dalton interwove the two viewpoints in Labour 's June 1944 statement on full employment ( which he described as largely Keynesian with some socialist additions ) and Labour 's 1945 election manifesto was more convincing on full employment than anything put out by the Conservatives . |
| 4 | Well I think what I 'll do , if I go round by the market I can drop you there by the multi-storey car park and you can then just walk through to Baston 's ca n't you ? |
| 5 | And the silk scarf with it in a faded paisley design looked like something brought back by a missionary aunt from India about thirty years ago . |
| 6 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 7 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 8 | As you go in by the west end of the nave of the parish church , two black memorial plaques have been set into little side chapels on the north and south walls . |
| 9 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 10 | Ciaran Fitzgerald 's dishevelled and disheartened foot soldiers ( l-r ) Halpin , Smith , Popplewell , Rigney , Galwey and Fitzgibbon , reel from the French onslaught as they go down by a record margin in Paris . |
| 11 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 12 | If such measures lead to replacement of all today 's inefficient equipment as it wears out by the most efficient equipment now on the market , Sweden will need only 111 TWh of electricity in 2010 , rather than 140 TWh . |
| 13 | It was hard to see and he touched the stones as he walked along by the wall . |
| 14 | As he knelt down by the fire with a hare leg to gnaw , Farquhar Neas studied her again . |