Example sentences of "went by [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 2 | E.S.B. went by him to register a ten-length victory from Gentle Moya , with Royal Tan another ten lengths away third , but all eyes — stunned , disbelieving eyes — were on the stricken Devon Loch as Dick Francis slid off his back . |
| 3 | so I put it on the top of there , every time anybody went by they knocked it off ! |
| 4 | but Jack is so temperamental these days , I mean the other day he went by he said oh |
| 5 | And er of course , as years went by I got to a to be on the invoicing side , after that . |
| 6 | Then the pack of zander went through the swim and as they went by I took fish of 6lb 8oz , 8lb0oz , 8lb 6oz , 5lb 15oz and l0lb 11oz as fast as I could reel them in and then they were gone . |
| 7 | He thought it was me , and he put on a bit of a spurt and as he went by I tripped him up . ’ |
| 8 | It was love at first sight for me and Danielle , and as the weeks went by I became more and more besotted . |
| 9 | Biograph , it seemed , was giving the public a new social cinema and as the years went by it seemed that D. W. Griffith in particular was just taking the main problems of American society as his subject-matter . |
| 10 | And as the weeks went by it grew into that . |
| 11 | By early 1981 our support had fallen to below 30 per cent and as the months went by it plummeted even further to reach 23 per cent at the end of the year . |