Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 2 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |
| 3 | We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’ |
| 4 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 5 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 6 | I said that was a brilliant idea and by the time we were out of the car park and in the thick of the traffic , I was asking her what she was doing later . |
| 7 | Prior Robert was still so blind that he almost stumbled on the steps , but recovered himself with aristocratic dignity and by the time he reached the tiles of the floor was his complacent official self again . |
| 8 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 9 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 10 | His eyes took on a dreamy expression and by the time I had intoned " Archibald , Marshall , English , Mc Phail and Morton , " there was something near to a wistful smile on his lips . |
| 11 | But he was made of stern stuff Seizing his hammer he begin to bang away with undiminished enthusiasm and by the time the beasts returned the crush was rebuilt and a stout iron bar pushed across the front to prevent further break-outs |