Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 2 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 3 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 4 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 5 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 6 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 7 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 8 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 9 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 10 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 11 | It enables individuals to overcome some of the accessibility/mobility problems outlined above ; they can come and go largely as they please , use the services they wish and enjoy a wide range of social , business and leisure contacts , conditioned only by the time that is available for driving from place to place and the running costs of the vehicle . |
| 12 | Weather conditions had deteriorated rapidly by the time the plane reached Prestwick and the pilot aborted his landing almost on touch-down . |
| 13 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 14 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 15 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 16 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 17 | I was sure I could cope but the CF clinic people had all gone home by the time I realised I could n't manage — ’ |
| 18 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 19 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 20 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 21 | Be fucked out by the time I |
| 22 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 23 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 24 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 25 | Any'ow it 'll be all cleared away by the time she gets 'ome . ’ |
| 26 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 27 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 28 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |