Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bins were already out by the time Cornelius reached home . |
| 2 | The puppyhood phase is essentially over by the time the young dog is six months old . |
| 3 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 4 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 5 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 6 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |