Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down . |
| 12 | She was panting hard by the time she saw the narrow white ribbon that was the road to Coton . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 15 | So I do n't go outside by the time you 've finished . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 — ’ |
| 18 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 19 | She was scarlet in the face and perspiring profusely by the time she entered the old gentleman 's room . |
| 20 | If I could also ask those of you who have n't decided on a confirmation name , I think really by the time we meet again you should . |
| 21 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 22 | While most of the Manc pack ran aground by the time their debut albums hit the bargain bins , these ugly ducklings have started the second lap with their feathers unruffled and their rhythms decidedly unflurried . |
| 23 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |