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The mailbox is by the bus stop.

The stream runs by our back door.

He ran straight by me.

Be back by ten o'clock!.

We'll find someone by the end of March.

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.

Valencia threatened sporadically in the first half with Miguel having a decent effort deflected wide by Ashley Cole, while Jordi Alba's near-post cross was flicked into the sidenetting by Pablo Hernandez.

There was a call by the unions for a 30% pay rise.

I was aghast by what I saw.

In other directions the fields and sky were so much of one colour by the snow that it was difficult in a hasty glance to tell whereabouts the horizon occurred […].

There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare

I'd know you anywhere by your gravelly voice.

I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.

By Pythagoras' theorem, we can calculate the length of the hypotenuse.

We went by bus.

I discovered it by chance.

By 'maybe' she means 'no'.

The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]"

Players: Can we get there by candlelight? ¶ Gatekeepers: Yes and back again.

By the light of the moon, / by the light of a star / they walked all night

By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.

By Jove! I think she's got it!

By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.

By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong

'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond […]

I sorted the items by category.

Table 1 shows details of our employees broken down by sex and age.

Our stock is up by ten percent.

We won by six goals to three.

His date of birth was wrong by ten years.

We went through the book page by page.

We crawled forward by inches.

sold by the yard; cheaper if bought by the gross

While sitting listening to the radio by the hour, she can drink brandy by the bucketful!

He sits listening to the radio by the hour.

His health was deteriorating by the day.

The pickers are paid by the fortnight by the American bushel.

He cheated by his own admission.

By my reckoning, we should be nearly there.

Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.

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.

She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.

Are you eating by Rabbi Fischer? (at the house of)

By Chabad, it's different. (with, among)

I watched the parade as it passed by.

There was a shepherd close by.

[The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […]

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.

I'll somehow manage to get by.

a by path; a by room

by catch; a by issue