Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 2 | In between they were too busy enjoying themselves on the beach at Barmouth , or down by the lake or clambering up Snowdon . |
| 3 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 4 | Does it really matter , they ask , whether they are switched on or off by the idea of selling goods in a shop ? |
| 5 | These can be spooled in or out by the divers , from a control unit . |
| 6 | And down by the water side it there 's a a sort of a ruin just you can see it and he said that was where they stayed , a little monastery there . |
| 7 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 8 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 9 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 10 | He was being turned over and over by the rush of water . |
| 11 | And over by the quarry . |
| 12 | Instead of the great epic being told over and over by the bards and preachers of the word , we are offered by the critics snatches of data to be dissected , truncated , and — most scandalously of all — ‘ authenticated ’ . |
| 13 | And over by the fire is Hamish , and Sawney let us in , of course . ’ |
| 14 | I mean that 's what cut straight the way across that it was , it was all and my aunt she used to live by All Saints West Bromwich , we never used , we never went to see them we used to walk it down the road past the Boars Head onto the Navigation Inn , and up by the Sandlow and she used to live opposite er All Saints Church in West Bromwich , and erm coming back we should come back round midnight you know and er have you ever heard of the Whirly Gang ? |
| 15 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 16 | The phone must be signed in and out by the user or their nominee . |
| 17 | Then through the square , and out by the lane that leads to Aldersgate Street . ’ |
| 18 | She stood on the landing , watching him as he went down the stairs and out by the side door . |
| 19 | Dent to Brigflatts and back by the Dales Way |
| 20 | British delegates were offered by the organisers a package of " rail and boat fare there and back by the Dover-Calais route plus hotel accommodation with two meals for seven complete days : £3 95 3d for third class and £3 16s 3d for second class travel " , which in the circumstances was almost irresistible . |
| 21 | Malham , the Cove , Gordale Scar and back by the Tarn |
| 22 | She felt as though flung from health to illness and back by the day , by the hour . |
| 23 | I suppose the most regular walk I do around Malham begins and ends at the village itself , going first by Janet 's Foss to Gordale Scar then on to the Tarn and back by the Cove . |
| 24 | Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart . |
| 25 | Miss Lyn Birchmore , 24 , of Cheltenham , was bitten on the face and back by the pet macaw which had been allowed out by its owner . |
| 26 | After all , there were only two ways that Harry could come on to Grace , the gangplank across from Maurice , on which Stripey lay digesting uneasily , or back to the wharf and round by the afterdeck . |
| 27 | As the clocks chimed and struck all over the city he would stroll down the Broad , along St Giles and round by the Parks … |
| 28 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |