Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the [noun sg] i " in BNC.

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1 He was already inside and sitting himself down by the time I spoke .
2 I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the
3 The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value .
4 The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved .
5 I was also rather put off by the fact I had inadvertently climbed to the summit of Cairn Gorm from the restaurant at the top of the chairlift one drizzly afternoon years ago .
6 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 .
7 I was so shook up by the screeching I could n't rightly say what happened . ’
8 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 . ’
9 Be fucked out by the time I
10 Now that one blow is borne out by the examination I made of Aldhelm 's head .
11 Well I think what I 'll do , if I go round by the market I can drop you there by the multi-storey car park and you can then just walk through to Baston 's ca n't you ?
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