Example sentences of "to go by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steamer was full of refugees and many Chinese — the railway was full of troops moving south so that it was easier to go by river . |
| 2 | Jack and Warnie were to go by motorcycle — Daudel as Warnie called it — with Warnie in the saddle and Jack in a low-slung sidecar . |
| 3 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 4 | We were to go by sea . |
| 5 | However , do n't look at the speed ; try to go by feel and tighten the turn until you feel or hear the airflow start to break away around the wing-root . |
| 6 | Rashid had left the flat only once , to go by taxi to the Syrian Embassy to press further his application for asylum , and on that occasion , while he had talked and drunk coffee in an inner office his two daughters had sat outside with their colouring books and crayons . |
| 7 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 8 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 9 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 10 | It was also a pleasant break from air-travel to go by road from Agra to Delhi , and to see something of the country . |
| 11 | If we allow Korea to go by default and to fall within the Soviet orbit , the world will feel that we have lost another round in our match with the Soviet Union , and our prestige and the hopes of those who place their faith in us will suffer accordingly … . |
| 12 | If a man ca n't afford to go by automobile , and if he is content with eating and architecture , the world 's best ( as I have known it ) is afoot from Poitiers , from Brives , from Perigord or Limoges . |
| 13 | I mean fancy expecting me to go by tube |
| 14 | For example 1 might have chosen to go by ship to New York . |
| 15 | Schoolcard holders can go on the bus if accompanied by no more than four adults — if they want to go by train they must have an Adult DayRover ; a Family DayRover is for two adults and three child permit holders or one adult and four child permit holders with dog . |
| 16 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 17 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 18 | So safety is a thing which is ca n't just be said Oh it 's it 's safer to go by train than it is to cross the road . |
| 19 | The prospectors , unlike their predecessors in many parts of the world , were able to go by train : |
| 20 | The usual answer is ‘ I would love to go by train , but it costs too much ’ . |
| 21 | Sometimes we used to go by train to Retford , Torksey or Saxilby . |
| 22 | We had to see what happened to these railways er is more people going to er to go by train , or are less going to go . |
| 23 | Do you want to go by train ? |
| 24 | to go by train . |
| 25 | So I really pay £40 to go by car . |
| 26 | She says I always go with my bike shopping — I could n't imagione to go by car — there are no problems parking … |
| 27 | She says I always go with my bike shopping — I could n't imagine to go by car … there are no problems parking … and can put lots of things in my bags . |
| 28 | She 'd never make it if she tried to go by bus . |
| 29 | I think she 's very optimistic if she expects others to go by bus so that she can get her car out of Muirwood Road , to get to work in Wester Hailes . |
| 30 | I said , no , and she said oh I have lots of times , I only live at Manchester , you see , and of course , you had to go by boat you see , and I caught the boat train from Ipswich at eight o'clock in the morning and I got to Manchester at lunchtime about one and then went on to Liverpool and the train there took us almost down to the docks . |