Example sentences of "[det] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairfax and Lady De Marr have already had a few by the time I join them . |
| 2 | Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components . |
| 3 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
| 4 | The fact that Hall 6 is a bare cavern with iron girders did n't matter at all by the time we had finished . |
| 5 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 6 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 7 | He celebrated by taking a wicket with his sixth ball and two more by the time he had bowled twenty ; when Hendrick got Lloyd , West Indies were 26 for 4 . |
| 8 | Fish never quite tastes the same by the time it reaches London . |
| 9 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 10 | He had a big advantage over Peter Slade in that by the time his seminal publication , Development through Drama , emerged in 1967 , the profession , particularly teachers in the Primary schools , was more eager to seize upon his message . |
| 11 | A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom . |
| 12 | It is understandable that a civil servant takes longer to negotiate or work out a solution over which he is unenthusiastic , the result being that by the time the work is complete , there is a new minister who is more ready to see the weaknesses of this line of action . |
| 13 | I thought he was kinda saying to that by the time she got round to saying it , it would n't mean as much . |
| 14 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |
| 15 | Yeah and then that by the time I get back about fourish |
| 16 | yeah , just like erm , say a Friday or Saturday night when I take the car to go home , Sarah 's worked it out that by the time she walks upstairs and into her bedroom , she normally sees me going down Upping Road , but she does n't see me , next days it 's oh where did you go ? or what happened ? , |
| 17 | so people will have that by the time you get |
| 18 | some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him |