Example sentences of "a [noun] went by [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was not to be ; the Edison company preferred to market the phonograph as a dictation machine , and nearly a decade went by before cylinder moulding became a commercial reality . |
| 2 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
| 3 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
| 4 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
| 5 | A half-hour went by before I finally decided I was n't going to feel fine ever again . |