Example sentences of "went [adv] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |
6 | 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 . |