Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fancy ten minutes down by the river , dog ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were a few wooden beach huts down by the shoreline . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was gon na say they 're having the rest of their lives off by the sound of it ! |
| 9 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | Many pool owners pull plants up by the handful and then wonder why the water turns green . |
| 11 | Poland wanted the troops out by the end of the year , but the Soviet side wanted until the end of 1993 to complete a withdrawal . |
| 12 | The sky was soon dark and the sound of heavy bombs exploding died away , to be replaced by shells passing over the orchard from the British guns down by the river Orne . |
| 13 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 14 | At first we thought we had no neighbours down by the river : nearly all the picture windows were blank . |
| 15 | Something ticked in the shadows over by the door . |
| 16 | Hedge-hopping yellow hammers proved another diversion and a flock of blue ties flickered and contact-called , ‘ psi-psi-psi ’ , from the willows down by the water 's edge . |
| 17 | As you can see the erm , where is it , we 've got to have , or the airlines have got to have their submissions in by the end of this month so if we have got anything really that we want to say from sales we ought to be letting have it in in a formal thing . |
| 18 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 19 | The well-known supermarket teaser is to put all the sweeties up by the till , so you have to buy when you queue . |
| 20 | I 'm not used to scotch and I went into the gents down by the station to be sick . ’ |
| 21 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 22 | The Order , when he came across its several agents down by the waterside , was civil for no doubt the same reasons . |
| 23 | Do you remember where we picked those blackberries up by the railway line ? |
| 24 | They held races out by the railway tracks on Saturdays . |
| 25 | a , a , a strong back which was er er say a , a what we call a back in the centre of the ship and course the d n th the steam hopper could heave their own doors up by the steam winch . |
| 26 | I 've got those photographs back by the way . |
| 27 | He did this willingly and without complaint , often coming in over a complete weekend in order to have all the new cards out by the end of August which was largely achieved . ’ |