Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , nablab sales in the off-trade , which is traditionally less affected by recessionary pressure , were down by a third . |
| 2 | The corresponding carbon dioxide emissions were down by a similar amount . |
| 3 | Besides , they were down by the river now , and she wanted to see the bridge … |
| 4 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 5 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 6 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 7 | Okay erm Jim and Si were over by the trees having a fag and walked |
| 8 | At Penguin , trading profits were £26.3m — and increase of 101% or , if the impact of the Smithmark and New York lease problems of the previous year is excluded , of 31.5% — while at Longman , operating profits were up by a hefty 38% , to £23.5m . |
| 9 | COMPLAINTS against the Lothian and Borders police force were up by a quarter last year , deputy chief constable Hector Clark told councillors yesterday . |
| 10 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 11 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 12 | We were out by the pool and she said , ‘ Now , we do n't have to talk about it , but have you had suction , and tucks all over your body ? ’ |
| 13 | I thought they , they were out by the time this book was published that er Maggie Thatcher was out , was , I mean this |
| 14 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 15 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 16 | Individual membership declined by a quarter — from 408 , 844 in 1939 to 304 , 124 in 1940 — and by the end of 1941 it was down by a further third — to 206 , 622 . |
| 17 | Now when I was down by the river at half seven … ’ |
| 18 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 19 | It was down by the old meat-packing warehouses . |
| 20 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 21 | And he said he 'd had a whiskies and he was down by the station and he said he jumped on the train and he landed up in De Detroit , and then the South African War broke out |
| 22 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 23 | Perhaps there had been a gust while he was over by the engine ? |
| 24 | The local boom in copper was over by the year of Waterloo , but mining continued until 1883 , and a windmill , whose tower remains , was built to help pump water from the quarry . |
| 25 | Meg was over by the fire . |
| 26 | ‘ My spirits , too , ’ agreed the old lady , throwing a wry glance at Theda , who was over by the windows . |
| 27 | Rafiq was over by the window , reading a technical magazine . |
| 28 | I waved to the toddling girl who was over by the window again , banging a fist on the pane and watching the rain drizzle down . |
| 29 | I was over by the Orchard and then this . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll say , ’ Ven snarled , and was over by the door , blocking out the light from the sitting-room when , ‘ I never did like my women that clinging ! ’ he barked brutally . |