Example sentences of "[adj] by [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because there are only modest hills to the north of it , and nothing too high close by on the south , Oloron is an open , not a mountain town . |
| 2 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
| 3 | A number of people close by on the summit were busy like me holding the wall up with their backs and their morale up with cheese and onion doorsteps . |
| 4 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 5 | There was n't a sound , yet she was convinced that close by in the darkness someone lay in wait . |