Example sentences of "go by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're not going by the lake . |
| 2 | You going by the ferry ? |
| 3 | All good games going by the reports and super goals to boot . |
| 4 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 5 | On Sunday night at London 's Red Rose Cabaret , run by Ivor Dembina ( erstwhile member of Comic Abuse ) , a benefit going by the name of F**k was held for cabaret performance poet Joolz . |
| 6 | The court heard that the man behind the fraud was an American going by the name of Hector Portillo . |
| 7 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 8 | The turbulence is being kept going by the working of this against the mean velocity gradient . |
| 9 | She knew , however , that getting herself into trouble as well would n't help them ; going by the sounds of fighting outside , she knew that it would probably be almost suicidal to risk going out tonight . |
| 10 | Worse , Intel is likely to cut the price of its Pentium chip during the next two years — perhaps by one-third or more going by the firm 's past behaviour . |
| 11 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 12 | Late that night Lachlan visited the wounded , smiling cheerfully , near dropping with exhaustion and loss of blood ; kept going by the force of will . |
| 13 | And then all of a sudden in a span of about three month a lot of deals started er going by the wayside let's say right . |
| 14 | Hopefully when I get a new tank set up , I will have more success in numbers by going by the book . |
| 15 | The best new Cash here is ‘ Going By The Book ’ where Biblical storied and Gulf War reports collide , weighty concerns that match his stentorian , testifying tones . |
| 16 | Most of these rules , I should point out , were petty , automatic ones relating to punctuality or tidiness and can generally be described as ‘ going by the book ’ . |
| 17 | Going by the Book |
| 18 | Judging from early games in this country , and especially by the dreadful Leicester v England match , our referees are going by the book and will blow rucks and mauls dead far more quickly . |
| 19 | This in turn leads to their ‘ going by the book ’ , their sense of power stemming from their ability to hold things up rather than get things done . |
| 20 | Going by the book to help Tanzania |
| 21 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
| 22 | he says he was going by the horse like |
| 23 | They went by the title of ‘ The Proprietors of the Invention for raising Water by Fire ’ , and no one could build an engine without their licence . |
| 24 | Apart from a particularly vicious-looking nose-job and alarming turquoise-coloured contact lenses , Rytasha is rather beautiful , and in the 1970s , when she went by the name of Ricki , she was a successful model ( she began life as Maxine Shenkman ) . |
| 25 | To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library . |
| 26 | In the creep-show of English international football the man most Scots loved to hate was a perm-headed striker who went by the name of Kevin Keegan . |
| 27 | A large man of ferocious appearance with thick black hair and beard , illiterate and unprepossessing , he went by the name of Black Will . |
| 28 | Each formation consisted of no more than fifty men , and they were no longer called ribelli , rebels , but went by the name of their commandant . |
| 29 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 30 | He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night . |