Example sentences of "we [vb past] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 2 | ‘ We passed by some mash and pie shops today , and I do n't know WHAT THE F— THAT IS , and I do n't care what it is either . |
| 3 | We learnt by practical experience — that a chimney on fire is an offence or a dog without a collar . |
| 4 | From Antigua , we transferred by local aircraft and passenger launch to Caneel Bay , St John , in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 5 | If we reduced by 5 per cent every unpledged benefit we would still , in 1984 , have saved only £200 million . |
| 6 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 7 | The natural sciences were once used to point to what we meant by objective information , but quantum physics , for example , has shown that even observing situations can alter them . |
| 8 | To show what we meant by grammatical description we included two examples of how meaning is constructed in different kinds of language , both spoken and written . |
| 9 | We advertised by personal contacts and through the media — the local TV , radio , and press — for potential bilinguals to come and be tested with a view to training them as interpreters . |
| 10 | We went by overnight ferry from Portsmouth to Caen , arriving early next morning for the eight-hour drive southeast to the Jura 's main resort , Les Rousses . |
| 11 | We went by grey houses , shutters still closed , |
| 12 | Incidentally , we went by public transport , first by train from Aberystwyth to Ruabon , where we saw the original departure platform . |
| 13 | We slipped by these and hired a wherry from Botolph 's Wharf . |
| 14 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 15 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |