Example sentences of "[noun pl] go by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no how long I sit there , I just sit there and sort of watch the cars go by . |
| 2 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 3 | We stopped the car somewhere near Richmond Park , off the main road ; we smoked and watched the headlights go by . |
| 4 | For my tastes , watching the boats go by is one of life 's happiest pleasures , and the best place in the world to do it is undoubtedly Venice , the supreme and eternal sea-city . |
| 5 | As he drew closer he saw that it was a man huddled beneath a thick overcoat , sitting on the pavement watching the crowds go by . |
| 6 | They stood watching the girls go by , small groups of foreign students or au pairs , leggy and lithe , Indian Summer girls whose presence in Brighton was a far bigger draw for young males than the Royal Pavilion . |
| 7 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 8 | ( i.e. would miss seeing children go by on the way to and from school ) . |
| 9 | And Peggy now patted her grandmother 's hand , saying , ‘ If one could only remember the nice things , the pleasant things , and let others go by ; but it 's always the reverse : the unpleasant things grow like weeds and choke any nice memory you might harbour . ’ |
| 10 | Standing on a wet street corner in Moscow with a fistful of roubles , watching the cabs go by , you soon realize that Soviet taxi drivers have lost all interest in the local currency . |
| 11 | She watched the floors go by , glimpsing the unfinished outlines of empty offices . |
| 12 | We step into the metal box and watch the floors go by as if they were years . |