The phrase "cupboard by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "She opened the cupboard by the door and retrieved her favorite tea."
I was in the fashion cupboard by myself.
Rice cakes are in the cupboard, by the way.
From One: A Cook and Her Cupboard by Florence Knight (Saltyard, RRP £26).
And take the mickey out of him they did - having him frog-marched into a cupboard by Rory of all people.
PDS The Fox in the Cupboard, by Jane Shilling (Penguin, £7.99) London journo learns to ride, hunt, accommodate her fear, join a group.
The whole house was refurbished, too — a loo was built in the old cupboard under the stairs, and the foot of the staircase was curved to make room for a big cupboard by the front door.
Caroline Records is nontheless planning to follow up "Coat of Many Cupboards" by reissuing XTC's first 10 albums.
Others are modest and makeshift, tucked away in closets, cupboards, by office copying machines and, in one case, behind the counter of a video store.
Hadn't the snowy owl suffered enough, its numbers in worldwide decline, its cousins kept in cupboards by confused Daniel Radcliffe fans?
As is sometimes the case with people who receive food stamps, which are usually distributed at the beginning of the month, Lee recalled having bare cupboards by the end of the month.
The best thing about state education is that you get so blasé about feeble supply teachers being locked in cupboards by gum-snapping alpha-bitches that, on the rare occasion your teacher actually makes it to class unscathed, it's like a cerebral orgy.
