Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a stitch by the time I reach the telephone box . |
| 2 | By the time I passed the old creche again it was getting darker and the insects were out . |
| 3 | By the time I reached the road the medics were bringing the casualties to the First Aid post . |
| 4 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 5 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |
| 6 | By the time I reached the furthest peak I was feeling distinctly sick . |
| 7 | Good friends from the start , as well as matchless needlers of each other and trigger-happy competitors , they put together such a record of collisions and accidents and general ‘ brouhaha that by the time I reached the FI scene , both were considered as ‘ wild men ’ who needed some settling down . |
| 8 | By the time I reached the address , I could not decide whether I should ask him to wait . |
| 9 | By the time I reached the quay the water out in the centre of the Strait was darkening with little puffs of wind and the mountains west of the town were half obscured by cloud . |
| 10 | We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence . |
| 11 | By the time I left the shower area , I had recovered sixteen coins . |
| 12 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 13 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 14 | By the time I arrived the Diamond Theme Display , and the Guards Band and Marching Display , had already taken place . |
| 15 | By the time I enter the ruins the sky is blue-gold , stretched taut over the crouched hump of the Chenoua mountain . |
| 16 | I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world . |
| 17 | Fairfax has a couple of gins and tonic ready by the time I have the fire blazing . |
| 18 | By the time I park the Fiesta in Malpass Road , it is nine o'clock . |
| 19 | As is so often the case with such ventures the programme was overambitious ; by the time I completed the initial research I had reached no further than 1910 ( Marriott 1984 ) . |