Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by the time you get to a two years . |
| 2 | ‘ I reckon by the time we 're 22 we 'll be doing a folk album , ’ yells Hugo , worryingly . |
| 3 | I reckon by the time we finish this year , we 'll have spent £4,000 on training and equipment for Fiona . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Yes I suppose by the time she 's here look different . |
| 6 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 7 | And I think by the time we get |
| 8 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 9 | Like you say by the time the sun comes round ? |
| 10 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |
| 11 | That 's the you know by the time sort of office workers are going in , they 've done all the streets and all the pavements but while they 're doing it it 's a hell of a mess . |
| 12 | you know by the time you add all that time up it 's high . |
| 13 | I also thinking about what we 're going to do is we would end up sounding like a Foster and Allen song anyway you know not deliberately but I think you know by the time we 'd have have by the time we do the way we 'd be able to do it it would sound like Foster and Allen . |
| 14 | Did you know that there 's like a huge chance that you 'll marry someone you know by the time you 're eighteen ? |
| 15 | Given Mrs Thatcher 's relatively non-confrontational stance at Strasbourg , they hope by the time key decisions have to be taken over EMU next year , the British Government will have reviewed its EC strategy . |
| 16 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |