Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 2 | If it rains when you are driving , you tend to be drenched by the time the hood has been erected and are the laughing stock of every MX-5 driver in the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's going to be tired by the time the plane comes . ’ |
| 5 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |