Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a real possibility that the newcomer is not only exhausted but possibly wounded by the time he has won the harem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 6 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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° . |
| 10 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 11 | What to do if the results have n't materialised by the time the conference takes place presents another ethical problem . |
| 12 | I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 14 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are some limitations with this approach , which may be resolved by the time the final product hits the streets . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 20 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 22 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 23 | The remainder were to be preserved or put to other uses , but delays in reaching decisions often meant that the buildings had been severely vandalised by the time they were available for conversion . |
| 24 | but I know Kay was n't very pleased with Sister about these sort of erm stout things , cos Sister said well if they 're not collected by the time of the next jumble , we sort of empty the cupboard and put them all in for erm the jumble sale Kay said to me they 're not hers to do that with |
| 25 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 26 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 27 | Cos it had moved by the time we got there . |
| 28 | That will be revealed by the time the report is published by the NRA . |
| 29 | The founder stressed the importance of instruction in Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and the school was built by the time of Judde 's death and endowed with property worth £60 3s. 8d. a year . |
| 30 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |