Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
| 2 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 3 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
| 4 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 5 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 6 | This cycle of events continually repeats to create an essentially rectangular or square-wave output signal , the frequency of which is controlled by the time constant RC . |
| 7 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 8 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 9 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is called by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
| 10 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 11 | A spare car was in Chamonix and Emerson was the one who went to fetch it , so that he was exhausted by the time free practice began on Thursday afternoon . |
| 12 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 13 | I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’ |