Example sentences of "by [noun sg] they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |
| 2 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 3 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 4 | When they moved , every muscle ached but by midday they were in the fields again . |
| 5 | By mid-afternoon they were on the lower slopes of Lustley Foin . |
| 6 | By mid-afternoon they were in business . |