Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
2 | They really do n't seem to want to have that part closed off but that part along by the river and that seemed to be almost entirely er satisfactory to everybody and er Chairman fenced off one or two other people quite well . |
3 | Fancy ten minutes down by the river , dog ? ’ |
4 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
5 | Four boys , drunk to the wide , started a mock fight down by the park railings . |
6 | Art has served his country town well this country town well , he lived he all his life all in a small cottage down by the river . |
7 | I 've a small cottage down by the coast — it is n't being used this weekend . |
8 | At the half-year , however , deficit down by a quarter from $31.9m to $23.7m reflecting sharp reduction in Q1 losses . |
9 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
10 | Hold a baby or small toddler upside down by the feet ; an older child can rest face down across your thigh . |
11 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
12 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
13 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
14 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
15 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
16 | ‘ Connelly 's just bought himself a warehouse down by the docks . ’ |
17 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |
18 | Water was carried in leather buckets from the spring along by the castle , a quarter of a mile down the track . |
19 | There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline . |
20 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
21 | He had Ken over by the allotments , when he used to stay in the car |
22 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
23 | No exactly but I think prior to that , we did do what you 're suggesting , we did go round all the areas , Dick , myself and Malcolm and Chris , walked round all the areas , told told the people what needed tidying up to go in the it was before we had the racking up by the way so it was more messy |
24 | Marcus pulled Pat up by the shoulders , pulling him up so that his head was higher , and Moxie thrust the pillow in behind him . |
25 | Silicon availability has McNealy bragging that Sun will have more multiprocessing servers out by the end of this year than all the rest of the world combined in the history of the world . |
26 | I need the boat back by the end of the week to get it in shape for the pre-race trials . ’ |
27 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
28 | During lunch the Rentokil managers were heartened by the fact that in such a short space of time the seminar had paid for itself four times over by the amount of business gained . |
29 | I wish to confirm the details made by telephone on by a member of my staff . |
30 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |