Example sentences of "went [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farms , small to start with and made even smaller as time went on by the system of inheritance , were extremely vulnerable to natural disaster . |
| 2 | They would talk about the weather , about what went on by the sea-coast , about Easterling pirates , about news from Lincoln , or Peterborough , or York , or Chester , but not about the forest . |
| 3 | The cart went along by the garden wall , and round to the back door . |
| 4 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 7 | Clara , naturally , did not approach the front door ; she went in by the back , and into the kitchen . |
| 8 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 9 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |
| 10 | He said goodbye and went back by the road . |
| 11 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |