Example sentences of "be [v-ing] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 2 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 3 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 4 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 5 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 6 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 7 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 8 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 9 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 10 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 11 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |