Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And cut them down by twenty a day .
2 Put it in by eleven .
3 ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul .
4 In fact if it was dry down to the band they would near take it in by that time , you with the bands round the middle ?
5 On the descent that followed , leading to Låddejåkkåstugan — stugan is hut — about six kilometres , we beat them down by forty-five minutes , freewheeling all the way .
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