Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 2 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 3 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 4 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 5 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 6 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 7 | 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 — ’ |
| 8 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 9 | Be fucked out by the time I |
| 10 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 11 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 12 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 13 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 14 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |