Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ? |
| 4 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 5 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 6 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 7 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 8 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 9 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 10 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 11 | Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala . |
| 12 | Mabel , whose mother came from the wealthy de Veres , had by the time of her father 's death married into the Francheville family , and she was not the sort of woman to throw away her rightful inheritance without a struggle . |
| 13 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 14 | What she could do , Fabia realised by the time she was back at her hotel and in the lounge with a cup of coffee , was to return to England without delay . |
| 15 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |