Example sentences of "[conj] by [art] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 2 | But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ . |
| 3 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
| 4 | Well , your average fees per term , ten years on , at current inflation rates … will stand at … five thousand a term , give or take , you see … and that 's just when he 's ten … course it 'll be double that by the time he 's seventeen … |
| 5 | The reason for our settling where we did was because Nigel , being an electrical and water engineer , had always believed that by the time he reached retirement the world would be starting to run out of power . |
| 6 | The trouble was that by the time he knew Mosley was a serious electoral threat to his position , it was almost too late . |
| 7 | He 's starting to realise that by the time he 's in a position to do anything that he wants , there 'll be nothing that he really wants to do . |
| 8 | While Ismail Belig may have some evidence for this view , evidence which in any case he does not mention , it is worth pointing out that by the time he was writing , the combination of such important posts would have been highly unusual , if not unknown , whereas in the early days of the Ottoman state it was not uncommon . |
| 9 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 10 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 11 | Then he felt resentful for being made to feel guilty , so that by the time he got back to the Questura all the benefits of his walk had been cancelled out . |
| 12 | He was so funny and entertaining — and made her laugh and smile so much — that by the time he led her from the dance-floor , to fill their plates from the groaning buffet table , she felt far more relaxed and at ease . |
| 13 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 14 | Because they know that by the time he gets to court , he 'll be thrown out , and all the time will be wasted , |
| 15 | It is to steal his own clothes , and by the time he comes to Sonya to confess , the Napoleonic idea is already crumbling into wanting to dare or something even vaguer . |
| 16 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 17 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 18 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 19 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |
| 20 | And by the time he realises it , his love affair with fishing is over , and he can never recapture that truly magical feeling again . |
| 21 | Coleridge 's opinion of Dorothy was soon to be recorded by him in words no less intense , and by the time he parted from the Wordsworths on 28 June , they were all determined that their separation from one another should be as brief as possible . |
| 22 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 23 | He played for his County boys ' team at the tender age of 11 years and by the time he was 13 he was reserve for the England Boys International team against Scotland . |
| 24 | The other problem which arose in modus was that ownership passed to A before he need even dream of performance , and by the time he was reminded it was relatively hard to get him , as owner , to think of his duties towards B. It is , however , a very intractable question how purposes were enforced in Roman law . |
| 25 | The Arnhem mortar fragment had ended his war however , and by the time he got out of military hospital it was more or less over . |
| 26 | In his leisure hours , Lowe was a linguist and by the time he was 34 years old , he could read and write in French ( modern and Old Norman ) , Latin , Greek ( ancient and modern ) , German , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch and Danish . |
| 27 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 28 | He encouraged her to talk about Paddy , asking questions as if he was really interested , and by the time he pulled up she was beginning to feel much better . |
| 29 | The only transport available was a dog cart , which he hired of necessity , but the slowness made his temper worse , and by the time he reached the rectory he felt as if he would burst with fury . |
| 30 | They were held up just north of the city , repairs on the line , and by the time he reached the house on Mahogany Drive it was n't early any more , it was after midnight . |