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UK
/bˈaɪ/
]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪ/ ]
ADVERB
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so as to pass a given point
every hour a train goes past -
in reserve; not for immediate use
put something by for her old age
has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day
started setting aside money to buy a car
How To Use by In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
- They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II