Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] by [art] time " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
2 | Dare one hope that the Murrey Report will have alleviated the situation by the time these words are read ? |
3 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
4 | ‘ Not only do we measure the movement by the time , but also the time by the movement , because they define each other . |
5 | The fire had spread to the fuselage and reached the cockpit by the time he got the wheels on the ground and jumped out . |
6 | If that were the case , then atavistic professional instincts and the terrifying imminence of the first night would ensure that he knew the part by the time they opened . |
7 | They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly . |
8 | Many of the populace had fled the town by the time when , on one hot Summer 's day , Ben and Charley purchased some cheap fruit in Devonport Market , unaware that the town crier had already warned off buying it . |
9 | divide the distance by the time hundred and forty three divided by two point seven equals fifty two point nine round off to the nearest whole number that would be ? |
10 | She discussed the problem with Tom but he suggested she should bide her time , adding , ‘ The navvies will have finished the road by the time Anna 's wedding comes around . |
11 | She had always left the flat by the time Claudia came home , and she knew her sister was with Roman , and the dull despair that lived with her permanently would deepen a little more as she tidied the theatre programmes or the menu from an exclusive restaurant . |
12 | ‘ He hardly left the house by the time you got round to him . ’ |
13 | Stoddard 's Engineering and Tuners will be well practised at crossing the Atlantic by the time these matches are established and running on the other side of ‘ the pond ’ . |