pass by vs set adrift

pass by

verb
  • To travel past (something) without stopping; to ignore, to disregard. 

  • to drop by 

  • Of a period of time: to come to an end, to elapse. 

  • To travel past without stopping. 

set adrift

verb
  • To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it. 

How often have the words pass by and set adrift occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )