Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairfax and Lady De Marr have already had a few by the time I join them . |
| 2 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 3 | ‘ These , ’ I cried , ‘ are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ’ |
| 4 | Isaac would have been two or three years old by the time he was weaned . |
| 5 | Libby 's jersey felt rough on her arms after the bareness of summer , they wore wellington boots , not sandals , and the black rubber glistened with damp by the time they had crossed the field , disturbing the sleeping cows . |
| 6 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 7 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
| 8 | It was dark by the time we were finished . |
| 9 | It was almost dark by the time they got on the motorway . |
| 10 | It was dark by the time they had finished . |
| 11 | It was nearly dark by the time they reached the hut . |
| 12 | It was dark by the time he had finished with the left side of the road . |
| 13 | It was dark by the time he reached his destination . |
| 14 | It was dark by the time I 'd finished . |
| 15 | So the fringe players such as Preston , Ellis , Bachop , Cooksley and Dowd might have a very quiet tour of Australia , and thus not be march-hardened by the time they move into the five-match tour of South Africa . |
| 16 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 17 | Because most people 's range of social experience has become quite limited by the time they have attained adulthood , such observations are nearly always selective and may be hard to interpret or simply misleading . |
| 18 | Icelandic salt cod was cheap , but transport and storage facilities were so unreliable that it was often rotten by the time it reached the housewife . |
| 19 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |
| 20 | Of course , even within the stated parameters , comprehensiveness is an impossible goal , because some publications escape the net , or are listed so late that they have gone out of print or are out-of-date by the time they appear . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , it 'll probably be even huger by the time we 've convicted Mutton on corruption charges , as well as Jake for smugglin' ! ’ |
| 22 | I was very much happier by the time I went to sleep . |
| 23 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 24 | But he was 72 and would be 73 by the time he had to move if he moved . |
| 25 | Further along the village another house used to be the ‘ cookhouse ’ and game room for them — the meals must have been cold by the time they arrived at the table of Londesborough Lodge ! |
| 26 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 27 | There were still things she wanted to go through , if she was not too tired by the time she got home . |
| 28 | The fact that Hall 6 is a bare cavern with iron girders did n't matter at all by the time we had finished . |
| 29 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 30 | 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 . |