Example sentences of "by this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 2 | By this time , the schools frequented by Roman catholics in Ireland were also largely under the direct control of the church 's clerics . |
| 3 | He scratched with his stick on the ground ( we were in Hyde Park by this time ) . |
| 4 | By this time , I was already leading a life which ten years earlier I would have assured you that I could never have tolerated . |
| 5 | By this time , though , the lice have probably been in the hair for several weeks . |
| 6 | By this time every gentleman knew what was expected of him : Cameron never dismounted , he leaned from the saddle and passed the paper down to the angry , helpless proprietor and took it back signed . |
| 7 | By this time they were starting to review the situation steadily , forecasting the Duke of Atholl 's likely moves , wording formal requests for warrants to meet in larger groups , arguing furiously over the likelihood of being able to get weapons from the armouries at Atholl or Taymouth Castle . |
| 8 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 9 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |
| 10 | But there is cause to suspect that even by this time , a certain boyish scepticism had erupted in Leonard 's mind . |
| 11 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 12 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 13 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 14 | But the English reader has a label ready to tie on to Theophile Gautier ; and by this time we can guess what is written on it — ‘ arid aestheticism ’ . |
| 15 | By this time the money involved would be £200,000 and the blackmail would run for two years . |
| 16 | As a result , ‘ Jacki ’ , who by this time was keen to move abroad , was delighted to hear in 1988 of serious interest from Pescara of Italy . |
| 17 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 18 | By this time there was a Land Rover and an unmarked escort [ car ] at the scene … |
| 19 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 20 | Lovat badly wounded , probably dead by this time ! |
| 21 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 22 | The whole place must be flattened by this time . |
| 23 | Colonel Vaughan will be in London by this time . |
| 24 | The soldiers ' families have probably received by this time a letter containing the words ‘ missing in action' ’ . |
| 25 | The German Army by this time must be across the Seine . |
| 26 | I would think that you should be wearing Lovat s tartan by this time ? ’ |
| 27 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 28 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 29 | Chevaline in all had risen in cost from £350 m. in 1974 to over £1 billion by 1982 , on top of the Polaris missile programme-even though by this time US-Soviet arms limitation agreements had made Chevaline redundant . |
| 30 | By this time his own anthropological reading was tailing off . |