Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] by " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ My dear , how the days go by ! |
| 32 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 33 | So policies to cut gas output below the current level will imply a larger and larger reduction below projected levels as years go by . |
| 34 | We will teach it to have all beauty , we will teach it that love is the most beautiful thing , and never need wax cold , as years go by . |
| 35 | It may seem pessimistic , even morbid , to think about a child , parents , a partner or ourselves becoming more and more dependent as the years go by . |
| 36 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 37 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 38 | It should be remembered , however , that all old people tend to become a little more self-centred as the years go by . |
| 39 | Even where deep affection remains unaltered , the gap between them often becomes a chasm as years go by . |
| 40 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 41 | The problems start as the years go by . |
| 42 | We can only assure you that , as the years go by , you 'll be more and more delighted you took it up . |
| 43 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 44 | The years go by and the Collector undoubtedly felt , as many of us feel , that one uses up so many options , so much energy , simply in trying to find out what life is all about . |
| 45 | Many children develop allergies in the first few weeks or months of life , and often these improve as the years go by . |
| 46 | From the cheetahs ' point of view the mean annual temperature does not get systematically better or worse as the years go by , except in so far as any change for a well-adapted animal is a change for the worse . |
| 47 | His conclusion is , firstly , that there is a tendency for brains to become bigger as the millions of years go by . |
| 48 | There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’ |
| 49 | The BBC 's current panic is that there is potential Government pressure against licences increasing as the years go by in an age of free market competition . |
| 50 | An achievement that means more as the years go by . |
| 51 | It is also considered unlucky to pay the whole of a doctor 's bill , a superstition which may prove important as the years go by , considering what some people say is happening to the NHS . |
| 52 | HRT is also of benefit for the intermediate symptoms of the menopause , those that do not appear until some time after periods have stopped but which tend to get more noticeable and troublesome as the years go by . |
| 53 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |
| 54 | Weeks go by in which , though I attend to my chores at the computer , I feel mostly like the unwilling bride of the house . |
| 55 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |
| 56 | His " grade " rises and falls like a temperature chart as the weeks go by , according to his successes or failures in tests taken at short intervals . |
| 57 | You should continue to lose weight and to feel more and more healthy as the weeks go by . |
| 58 | He heard the housekeeper 's cart go by outside the room . |
| 59 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 60 | But after a few more choice obscenities slide by she turns to me and , smiling , says , ‘ I 'm doing my best . |