Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PR lady had thankfully disappeared by the time we reached the Wigmore Street entrance to St Christopher 's Place , which was probably just as well . |
| 2 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 3 | The rich and famous had not arrived by the time Rain Morgan did , although there were plenty of county folk poised to spot them . |
| 4 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 5 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 6 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , had almost sunk by the time it had been towed in and hauled onto a slipway . |
| 7 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |