Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 2 | The National Railway Museum will set the family purse back by a similar sum . |
| 3 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 4 | Wendy and I were at once amused and embarrassed , but also concerned lest he be mown down by a passing train . |
| 5 | Mother-of-five Margaret Morrison died early yesterday after she was mown down by a speeding Ford Escort in Premier Road , Sunderland . |
| 6 | A BOY of six was seriously ill in hospital last night after being mown down by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 7 | As it was , such girls as fancied themselves would leave their cubicle doors open , in the hope that tantalizing glimpses of leg and breast and buttock might be seen through the high and smoky glass , and once Clara , taking advantage of the convention that they were unobserved , walked the whole length of the changing room draped only from the waist down by a small towel , on the pretext of borrowing a safety pin . |
| 8 | And there 's an accident up by the Flying Fox is it ? |
| 9 | SACKED Coleraine surgeon dramatically resigned today shortly after being given his job back by the Northern Health Board . |
| 10 | Sharon Griffiths , who was fifteen , died instantly when this Datsun Cherry driven by her sister Sandra was hit head on by a stolen car . |
| 11 | Mark Skinner and Paul Higham , both 23 , were airlifted to Lismore Hospital with multiple injuries after their vehicle was hit head on by a runaway car in northern New South Wales . |
| 12 | Gerry Fitzgerald , the Belfast Telegraph 's award-winning photographer , took it at a day out by the National Canine Defence League at Ballymena . |
| 13 | It was late ; the clock in Magdalen Tower had struck three in the morning before Lewis let Tolkien out by the little postern on Magdalen Bridge . |
| 14 | They claimed that mid-week polls showing a large Labour lead had shocked some floating voters into the realisation that opting for the Liberal Democrats would let Mr Kinnock in by the back door . |
| 15 | ‘ Something is wrong , Fabia ? ’ he asked urgently , leaving his stance over by the French window where he must have been taking a look outside , to come over to her . |
| 16 | Therefore the DECELERATE signal is applied to the phase sequence generator , which shifts the phase sequence back by an appropriate number of steps . |
| 17 | It took her no time at all to turn over the bed along by the rickety fence . |
| 18 | What visitors to Foxton now see , either from above or below , is a staircase series of two lock flights , separated half way down by a large passing pond , with intermediate side ponds stepping up the east side of the flight . |
| 19 | For twenty paces you can feel your way along by the low walls to your right . |
| 20 | You can sometimes get a little darkness back by a well-balanced skin diet , which I am sure your vet would have recommended . |
| 21 | ‘ Never mind , ’ said Mummy , as they went home in the bus — the long way round by the main road , from which they had to walk to Applewick . |
| 22 | A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge . |
| 23 | ‘ It would n't be your van down by the bottom field would it ? ’ |
| 24 | John took his party in by a back door , using the yard between the Foreign Office and the new building . |
| 25 | A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall . |
| 26 | These were not the short-legged all-white animals that Buddie kept in his pigsties over by the disused cinder-heap . |
| 27 | So you were left quite unprepared for the lightning 10K race start , made worse this time around by a shouted count-down . |