Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 2 | It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel . |
| 3 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 4 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 5 | So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night . |
| 6 | Well I thought if I have a walk over there at two then by the time I get back it 'll be time to go and get Christopher wo n't it ? |