Example sentences of "[pers pn] walked by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 2 | She walked by the river . |
| 3 | She walked by the shore , gathering shells . |
| 4 | The sun was setting as she walked by the brink of the ocean . |
| 5 | Eventually the light was left behind and they walked by the glow of the snow itself . |
| 6 | ‘ He walked by the tree shade of sunny winking leaves , and towards him came the wife of Mr David Shehee MP . |
| 7 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 8 | Night after night she 'd nag , and in the morning would peck his cheek affectionately if he walked by the cooker where she was frying up his bacon and eggs for breakfast . |