Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 2 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 3 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 4 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 5 | It was 2 a.m. by the time I joined Kenneth Cranham and his wife , Fiona Victory , in the lounge of the University Arms Hotel . |
| 6 | Kate and Tom Ballard will be four and six respectively by the time their mother , Alison Hargreaves , attempts to become the first British woman to ascend Everest ; by next August they should be used to life in the British Mount Everest Medical Expedition base camp . |
| 7 | Amiss was feeling fully human again by the time his friends arrived . |
| 8 | Festivities at Laura 's house were already well underway by the time they arrived there . |
| 9 | Mike was married twice by the time he was 20 : first to Jenny , and then to a large mortgage . |
| 10 | She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’ |
| 11 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 12 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 13 | John told me that he himself never saw the work performed on stage , being busy elsewhere by the time it went on . |
| 14 | Try not to brood about last night , so that you 're angry again by the time I can talk to you . ’ |
| 15 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
| 16 | So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night . |
| 17 | Well I thought if I have a walk over there at two then by the time I get back it 'll be time to go and get Christopher wo n't it ? |
| 18 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |