Example sentences of "they [vb past] by the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went by the sea route ; the night was clear and calm . |
| 2 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 3 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 4 | Twoflower helped the wizard to his feet and they crouched by the altar stone , watching the manic figure as it battled the questing arms . |
| 5 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |