Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , I like to talk , so he 's wound down , you know , really sleepy , comes to bed , and I 'm like , that 's when I wind down by chatting away and saying , you know , little snippets of things that have happened to you during the day , and he 's just like , oh , shut up , go to sleep , you know . |
| 2 | No do n't , I shall , if I 'm home by , only if I got back by five , I , I better |
| 3 | I kneeled down by Ben in the mud and found he was still unconscious . |
| 4 | ‘ I found out by accident . ’ |
| 5 | … a little box ; in it a red rose , and round the stalk of the rose is a slip of paper with the words written : ‘ Rudolf — Flavia — always ’ and the like I send back by him . |
| 6 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 7 | The dresses which Ben and I pored over by phone and at snatched meetings were going to be sensational . |
| 8 | I came in by the south door as usual and locked both it and the door in the grille after me . |
| 9 | I hang round by him , watching him for a bit . |
| 10 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 11 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 12 | I knocked out by four . |
| 13 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 14 | I get in by saying I 'm from the telephone company or something like that . |
| 15 | To increase the definition I finished off by drawing with a fine line , using a ZIG Artist Sketching Pen . |
| 16 | I flew down by helicopter from Estoril . ’ |
| 17 | Armed with the yellow pages and a mug of coffee , I settled down by the telephone . |
| 18 | I started out by trying to take advantage of the Cabriolet 's acoustic properties , so clean sounds were dialled , fingers flexed and picks replaced in pocket . |
| 19 | Like many youngsters of my generation I started out by breeding sticklebacks . |
| 20 | I started off by quickly writing that important journal article that was one week overdue . |
| 21 | I started off by using Kodachrome ( 100 ASA ) and after some trial and error got some good results . |
| 22 | ‘ I started off by getting all the rock chops together . |
| 23 | I started off by smoking it and then , when I injected it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 24 | I started off by smoking it , but later when I was injectin' it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 25 | ‘ I started off by prosecuting in drugs cases and I then dealt with major VAT fraud cases ’ . |
| 26 | Well I think what I 'll do , if I go round by the market I can drop you there by the multi-storey car park and you can then just walk through to Baston 's ca n't you ? |
| 27 | I could n't make friends so I went around by myself , did things by myself . |
| 28 | I went on by , that first time . |
| 29 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 30 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |