Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] by the time " in BNC.
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1 | I had a very good knowledge of Edinburgh by the time I was five . |
2 | The probability indeed is that the eastern Angles either had been or were in the process of being brought into a dependent relationship with Eadwine by the time of his marriage to Aethelburh or at least not long after . |
3 | ‘ I 'll be back from Poltown by the time you get back from Linby , so I 'll go to the bus-stop to meet you , ’ Angela promised . |
4 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
5 | At present , there is little to suggest continued occupation at Ilchester by the time of full Saxon penetration in the seventh century . |