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Sentences with by

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  • Travel by night
  • Be back by ten o'clock
  • The preposition is pronounced (baɪ). The adverb is pronounced (baɪ).
  • Driving home by the dirt road
  • To march by the reviewing stand
  • Missed the putt by a foot
  • North by northwest
  • He did well by his friends
  • A lawyer by profession
  • A trip by train, a pact reached by negotiation, made by craftsmen, poems (written) by Poe
  • He won by practicing daily
  • A son by my first husband
  • Marching two by two
  • by your leave
  • Playing by the rules
  • by all that's holy
  • The plans are OK by me
  • Apples by the peck
  • Growing dark by degrees
  • Two feet by four feet
  • Stand by
  • The car sped by
  • Stop by on your way home
  • The feast was served by his mother and sisters.
  • ...a painting by Van Gogh.
  • We'll be travelling by car.
  • Make the sauce by boiling the cream and stock together in a pan.
  • I met him by chance out walking yesterday.
  • I am certainly lucky to have a kind wife who is loving by nature.
  • Pharmacists are required by law to give the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
  • Stella knew what he meant by 'start again'.
  • He caught her by the shoulder and turned her around.
  • Judith was sitting in a rocking-chair by the window.
  • Large numbers of security police stood by.
  • A few cars passed close by me.
  • We had made arrangements to stop by her house in Pacific Grove.
  • By eight o'clock he had arrived at my hotel.
  • By day a woman could safely walk the streets, but at night the pavements became dangerous.
  • ...an apparent annual rate of 22.8 per cent (1.9 multiplied by 12).
  • Three prisoners were sharing one small cell 3 metres by 2 metres.
  • Violent crime has increased by 10 percent since last year.
  • Parcels arrived by the dozen from America.
  • His father began to lose his memory bit by bit, becoming increasingly forgetful.
  • Seeds eaten by the birds
  • This song is by Schubert
  • Enter by the back door
  • He frightened her by hiding behind the door
  • A tree by the house
  • He drove by the old cottage
  • Return the books by Tuesday
  • It is hotter by five degrees than it was yesterday
  • I swear by all the gods
  • Four by three equals twelve
  • A plank fourteen inches by seven
  • The house is close by
  • He put some money by each week for savings
  • He drove by
  • That's a' by now
  • You should put that by for later
  • Stand by the wall
  • The mailbox is by the bus stop.
  • Be back by ten o'clock!  We will send it by the first week of July.
  • The matter was decided by the chairman.   The boat was swamped by the water.   He was protected by his body armour.
  • There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
  • I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
  • I sorted the items by category.   By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
  • Our stock is up by ten percent.
  • We went through the book page by page.   We crawled forward by inches.
  • He cheated by his own admission.
  • By Jove! I think she's got it!  By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
  • It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.   The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.   The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
  • A home by a lake.
  • He came by the highway. She arrived by air.
  • They arrived by ship.
  • He went by the church.
  • by day; by night.
  • I usually finish work by five o'clock.
  • The new house is larger than the old one by a great deal. He's taller than his sister by three inches.
  • By his own account he was in Chicago at the time. I know him by sight.
  • This is a bad movie by any standards.
  • To swear by all that is sacred.
  • The book was published by Random House.
  • She read a poem by Emily Dickinson. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.
  • We met by chance. We won the game by forfeit.
  • Lovers walk by moonlight.
  • He did well by his children.
  • Piece by piece; little by little.
  • Multiply 18 by 57.
  • A room 10 feet by 12 feet.
  • Divide 99 by 33.
  • Apples are sold by the bushel. I'm paid by the week.
  • Eve had two sons by Adam.
  • Equipoise II by Equipoise.
  • He sailed NE by N from Pago Pago.
  • Come by my office this afternoon.
  • The school is close by.
  • The car drove by.
  • Put your work by for the moment. Over the years, she laid by enough money to retire.
  • In times gone by.
  • Is my pair of tens still high? By me.
  • They came down a by passage.
  • It was only a by comment.
  • The clouds will disappear by and by.
  • By and large, there is much to be said for the new system.
  • I watched as it passed by.
  • There was a shepherd close by. The shop is hard by the High Street.
  • I'll stop by on my way home from work. We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
  • The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
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