Example sentences of "were [adv prt] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , they were down by the river now , and she wanted to see the bridge … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That doll — that knitted gobshite — when that thing spat at you , you were n't anywhere near the window , you were over by the statues , on the other the of the room . |
| 4 | Okay erm Jim and Si were over by the trees having a fag and walked |
| 5 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 6 | COMPLAINTS against the Lothian and Borders police force were up by a quarter last year , deputy chief constable Hector Clark told councillors yesterday . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | I thought they , they were out by the time this book was published that er Maggie Thatcher was out , was , I mean this |
| 11 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |