Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 2 | The rain had set in steadily by the time Ruth got home . |
| 3 | At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada . |
| 4 | Along the chain of consequence , from atomic decay to my act of observation , things must have got fixed at least by the time that the cat 's experience entered into it . |
| 5 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 6 | I , I do n't know the answer to that offhand , but it 's , I 'm inclined to think that erm at least by the time of the Republic there are things that some people are more naturally predisposed towards philosophy and other people are less naturally predisposed towards philosophy . |