Example sentences of "go [adv] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going in by the back door |
| 2 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Going out by the gun-room window , ’ said Thomas , ‘ which master announced to all of them was faulty , and that was why Rover slept there . ’ |
| 4 | Would n't be too bad cos you 'd go down by the Jolly Farmer . |
| 5 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 6 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 7 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 8 | ‘ They will have gone down by the other side , ’ said Allan Stewart , ‘ it is their quickest way . ’ |
| 9 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 10 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 11 | Its undeviating accuracy in recording the passage of time to within one twenty-millionth of a second was a joke in a world that still went largely by the leisurely passage of the sun , where stage-coaches left at dawn , noon or sunset . |
| 12 | ‘ If we go home by the industrial estate I 'll show you my horse , ’ Gary suggested . |
| 13 | So you 'll always know that , if your salary 's gone up by the same level , whenever you claim , it 's gon na be the same percentage as it was today . |
| 14 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |
| 15 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 16 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 17 | You go round by the pleached walk . ’ |