Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 2 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 3 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 4 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 5 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 6 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 7 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 8 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 9 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 10 | Looking into the crystal ball , there now seems the prospect that the New Zealand XV ( after a mid-week warm-up ) will improve considerably by the time of the second ‘ test ’ . |
| 11 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 12 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 13 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 16 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 17 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 18 | Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down . |
| 19 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 20 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 21 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 22 | Ground fighting has been limited to sporadic artillery exchanges , and a handful of patrol clashes ; but this situation may change massively by the time this issue goes on sale . |
| 23 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 24 | So I do n't go outside by the time you 've finished . |
| 25 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 26 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 27 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 28 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 29 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 30 | Be fucked out by the time I |