Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're gon na go in through that door the second it goes down , they were n't loitering at the end of the passage , they were right by the door were n't they ? |
| 2 | Besides , they were down by the river now , and she wanted to see the bridge … |
| 3 | His great days were over by the middle of the 1830s , although he was still active , on a much reduced scale , until at least the middle of the next decade . |
| 4 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 5 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 6 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 7 | We were out by the pool and she said , ‘ Now , we do n't have to talk about it , but have you had suction , and tucks all over your body ? ’ |
| 8 | I thought they , they were out by the time this book was published that er Maggie Thatcher was out , was , I mean this |
| 9 | A traveller or two , pedlars and shepherds , were persuaded to join the few hundred who were there by the weight of glowering disapproval from dozens of faces when they showed signs of passing by . |
| 10 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 11 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |
| 12 | Now when I was down by the river at half seven … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 14 | And he said he 'd had a whiskies and he was down by the station and he said he jumped on the train and he landed up in De Detroit , and then the South African War broke out |
| 15 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
| 16 | It would seem , however , that it was only by the intercession of the two kazaskers , and indeed by virtue of an imperial decree , that he was able to do so . |
| 17 | However , although early Greek literacy must therefore also be labelled ‘ restricted ’ , the foundation was nevertheless being laid for future developments of the ‘ full ’ potential of literacy : ‘ It was only by the time of Plato that the language had changed sufficiently to express new ideas ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | Donny O'Brien , the ancient typesetter inherited from the original Advent , swore each day that it was only by the grace of God that the paper ever got launched in the taxi which delivered it to the newspaper boys . |
| 19 | It was only by the grace of God I could afford to buy it . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps there had been a gust while he was over by the engine ? |
| 21 | Rafiq was over by the window , reading a technical magazine . |
| 22 | I waved to the toddling girl who was over by the window again , banging a fist on the pane and watching the rain drizzle down . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll say , ’ Ven snarled , and was over by the door , blocking out the light from the sitting-room when , ‘ I never did like my women that clinging ! ’ he barked brutally . |
| 24 | The local boom in copper was over by the year of Waterloo , but mining continued until 1883 , and a windmill , whose tower remains , was built to help pump water from the quarry . |
| 25 | Meg was over by the fire . |
| 26 | I was over by the Orchard and then this . |
| 27 | It was largely by the force of his own personality that Castro took the Cuban people with him along the road of Marxism-Leninism ( although he was also tactically astute — for a long time implementing only the minimum conditions of Marxism , allowing rhetoric to fill the vacuum , and emphasising the glorious and dramatic aspects of Marxism , notably the armed struggle and proletarian internationalism ) . |
| 28 | He was already by the door when she managed a belated thank you . |
| 29 | Someone screamed and the small queue scattered , but Jenna was already by the shop as the skidding car hit the plate-glass window . |
| 30 | okay , okay , all right year seven , that was just by the way . |