Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them . |
| 2 | All was silent except for the automatic fire fairly close at hand , somewhere down by the crossroads . |
| 3 | One morning the alarm calls of grey langur monkeys alerted Bill Arjan Singh that Harriet was somewhere down by the river that forms the boundary with the National Park . |
| 4 | After locking all the doors carefully , I sat weakly down by the fire and tried to make sense of my life . |
| 5 | But no one was there save for a woman with an umbrella , a cyclist going wearily along by the kerb . |
| 6 | Occasionally , you 'd come across a child , mostly down by the canal . |
| 7 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 8 | On the other hand , public relations is often looked down on by the media as messengers with stories that hold no interest and which will be presented in the wrong way at the wrong time and in the wrong situation . |
| 9 | And I think if we go and have something in down by the sea and see what we 've got there I think it 'll be alright . |
| 10 | Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland . |
| 11 | He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug . |
| 12 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 13 | It lasted , like that with Elizabeth , for over a quarter of a century , though the five meetings between us were all over by the autumn of 1947 . |
| 14 | Duty on cigarettes is up ten percent — that 's thirteen pence on a packet of twenty , but on pipe tobacco duty is only up by the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | All round by the bin |
| 16 | The game was effectively over by the interval , with Celtic having built up a four-goal lead through Graham Nichols ( 2 ) , Kevin Messenger and Tom Shepherd . |
| 17 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 18 | I did n't know The Rolling Stones had started playing just down by the river . ’ |
| 19 | There was a crowd of us at the dancing in Panama Jax , a disco just down by the Clyde . |
| 20 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |
| 21 | My grandmother , right , had a back to back No listen , this is funny , she lived in a tenement in er which is n't there anymore actually just up by the river , up by the Angel , and there was nine people living there in two rooms and they had a lodger and the lodger , so they did have |
| 22 | The bins were already out by the time Cornelius reached home . |
| 23 | In the other , the church is founded but taken over early on by the Popes in Rome and by priests who use magic and ritual to gain control of God 's people , thus profaning his divine word . |
| 24 | Charles had been moved early on by the plight of disadvantaged young people and much of his energy had gone into that . |
| 25 | Sales were hit early on by the Gulf war and profits fell 19 p.c. to £2.8m . |
| 26 | The early Pop artists — Lichtenstein , of course , but Warhol too — were fascinated early on by the possibilities of comic illustration . |
| 27 | The real danger of course is the forthcoming Police bill the proposal which were instituted by the present er Treasurer , erm er the Chancellor er and instituted further on by the present Home Secretary would lead to a centrally appointed Police committee at least fifty percent and a centrally appointed chairman , paid by the Home Secretary much rather like the Leicestershire Health Authority and of course this will severely undermine the local democratic accountability of the Police service . |
| 28 | but where , where it 's in , it 's Old Harlow it 's in Old Harlow , but further down , right further down by the Fire Station , he used to have a surgery down there |
| 29 | Land by the Shropshire Union Canal in Boughton and further down by the Tower Wharf could be among the prime sites . |
| 30 | I thought that Neil , still over by the door , had a puzzled look . |