Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go by [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks went by before I saw him again and that was the day the coach left Sweetmary . |
| 2 | Fully ten minutes went by before Katherine spoke . |
| 3 | Five minutes went by as she reflected that Rosemary must be feeling as miserable as Travis , then , checking to see that Travis was all right as she passed , she went to bed . |
| 4 | But several morrows went by before she received word that the lady Anne might visit the prince her husband in the company of her guardian . |
| 5 | Three , four months went by until only two routes for selling them remained unexplored . |
| 6 | There are n't two days go by though when I do n't think of him , because there was a time when we 'd play tennis four or five times a year . |
| 7 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |