Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 2 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 3 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 4 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 5 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 6 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |