Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat .
2 The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value .
3 The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved .
4 It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel .
5 Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp .
6 Amiss was feeling fully human again by the time his friends arrived .
7 Festivities at Laura 's house were already well underway by the time they arrived there .
8 Mike was married twice by the time he was 20 : first to Jenny , and then to a large mortgage .
9 She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’
10 John told me that he himself never saw the work performed on stage , being busy elsewhere by the time it went on .
11 Try not to brood about last night , so that you 're angry again by the time I can talk to you . ’
12 It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty .
13 So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night .
14 Well I thought if I have a walk over there at two then by the time I get back it 'll be time to go and get Christopher wo n't it ?
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