Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] by this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one mentioned again the photograph I had sent : ‘ I 've almost gazed the gloss off the film by this time ! |
| 2 | They had come within sight of the stables by this time , and Mrs Alderley 's coachman , seeing his mistress approaching , made haste to open the door , calling to the groom who had accompanied them to reharness the horses which had been released from the bit . |
| 3 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 4 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 5 | I saw your cases there , and Archie McLaren will have them into the Land-Rover by this time . |
| 6 | No , it 's too late in the conversation by this time to start saying ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 7 | There was a new baby in the house by this time . |
| 8 | He had the prior stiffly erect and somewhat pale in the face by this time , though the manner of the questioning was altogether reverent and grave , even deprecating . |
| 9 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 10 | I had got my back almost round to the steps by this time but I knew I 'd never get my parka open and the front door key out unless I had an edge . |
| 11 | But apparently people insisted that one stand up to do one 's piece , and I — successfully acclimatised to the horizontal by this time — refused to pander to this sort of nit-picking , and so passed my turn on to Cousin Josh with as much good grace as I could muster . |
| 12 | The pupae will be drifting around the adventurers by this time , so a swing with a weapon will automatically be an attack against D2 of them ( the pupa is hit if the character fails a WS test ) . |