Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came in by the south door as usual and locked both it and the door in the grille after me . |
| 2 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 3 | The ceremony was hosted by a couple dressed in matching velvet Babygros , his tipped off by a woolly bobble , hers with what appeared to be a cat 's tail . |
| 4 | Armed with the yellow pages and a mug of coffee , I settled down by the telephone . |
| 5 | Well I think what I 'll do , if I go round by the market I can drop you there by the multi-storey car park and you can then just walk through to Baston 's ca n't you ? |
| 6 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 7 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |
| 8 | I sat down by the table and lifted the pot . |
| 9 | Then I sat down by the letter table . |
| 10 | I sat down by the side of Blyth , careful not to let my shadow cross his face . |
| 11 | As keyboard player for the prolific Joey Negro , Andrew ‘ Dog ’ Livingstone often finds himself woken up by the radio alarm clock blasting out his latest piano riff . |
| 12 | Now he is hoping his speech which slowed down by the coma will quicken up . |
| 13 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 14 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
| 15 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 16 | She knelt down by the low window , put her head on her arms and cried bitterly . |
| 17 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |
| 18 | She sank down by the side of the road . |
| 19 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 20 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 21 | Switching between one-day and five-day mode was unpopular with the players , and the new showbiz-style razzmatazz that accompanied the games seemed specifically designed to cater for the drunken yobbos who turned up by the cartload . |
| 22 | Spike : Another word for the smash , where you jump up by the net and whack the ball down with your hand . |
| 23 | Lucy 's use for the place now over , she cut down by the stage and went out through the main part of the club . |
| 24 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |
| 25 | A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails . |
| 26 | There 's no way into the playground from the square and by the time you get round by the road , whoever it was will be home and dry . ’ |
| 27 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 28 | Stack everything you find over by the hatch . |
| 29 | ‘ So now , my dears , there 's two of you to warm up by the fire ! ’ |
| 30 | Eighty five of you said yes your parents did a good a job , now , I do n't know who your parents were or what you mean by your parents or indeed how many you have , so let's ask , simply an informational question , were you brought up by a mother and a father ? |