Example sentences of "[subord] by [art] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life as a second lieutenant in the Guards with little prospect of action did not appeal , although by the time the Germans invaded France in May 1940 , Stirling was in Chamonix training with a force of experienced skiers who were to be sent to help the Finns . |
| 2 | It does nothing to reduce the damage because by the time the sucking has taken place the poison is already busily circulating through the victim 's body . |
| 3 | well it , the running the business is n't I do n't think because by the time the tax man 's hammered you |
| 4 | Unfortunately , such discovery is often of limited value , since by the time the site is recognized and reported , it is usually more than half destroyed : in most cases , there is little time for archaeologists to salvage information from what is left of the site . |
| 5 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |