Example sentences of "[verb] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 2 | ‘ If they do not fall by the time the Commons returns on January 11 , I will put forward legislation to free up this market . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 4 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 5 | There is a real possibility that the newcomer is not only exhausted but possibly wounded by the time he has won the harem . |
| 6 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 7 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 8 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 9 | Among the other problems encountered was its failure to attract the scale of advertising enjoyed by the Times . |
| 10 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 11 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 12 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 13 | One unusual communications medium employed on the battlefield was reported by The Times . |
| 14 | The italics are ours , and mark the parts which had been deleted by the time the twelfth edition was reached in 1954 ; the word trained was replaced by rightly guided . |
| 15 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 16 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 17 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 18 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 19 | What to do if the results have n't materialised by the time the conference takes place presents another ethical problem . |
| 20 | I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 22 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 23 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 24 | Like you say by the time the sun comes round ? |
| 25 | So , say as , say erm , say by the time you 're you 're probably , mm , I du n no , thirty . |
| 26 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 27 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 28 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 29 | There are some limitations with this approach , which may be resolved by the time the final product hits the streets . |
| 30 | 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 . |