Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ? |
| 2 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 3 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 4 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 5 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 6 | What she could do , Fabia realised by the time she was back at her hotel and in the lounge with a cup of coffee , was to return to England without delay . |
| 7 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |