Example sentences of "by [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 2 | By that time they had all discarded their clothing . |
| 3 | Neither Laura nor Bernard were able to attend this ceremony as by that time they had exported themselves . |
| 4 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 5 | By that time we knew which creatures were most dangerous — the evil-tempered hippos , the unpredictable lone buffalo and the silent crocodiles . |
| 6 | By that time she had become vitally conscious of the pressure of his hand on her shoulder . |
| 7 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 8 | By that time she 'd absorbed all her allowances , therefore it did n't matter whether she 'd |
| 9 | By that time he 'd upped and gone . |
| 10 | By that time he 'd turned her head so much with tales of the big city and the life they could have there , she 'd have followed him anywhere . |
| 11 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 12 | By that time he had left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade . |
| 13 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 14 | By that time he had been twice smitten . |
| 15 | By that time he had opened the door at the end of the car . |
| 16 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 17 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 18 | By that time he had found a very individual voice . |
| 19 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 20 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 21 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 22 | Erm By that time I mean the there had been lots of problems in other cities . |
| 23 | By that time I 'd heard my pimp was in custody , and I started renting a flat . |
| 24 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 25 | By that time I 'd really stopped noticing whether people are male or female and just got on with the physics . |
| 26 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 27 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 28 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
| 29 | By that time I had already established because I did the documentary stuff , I 'd already established the ownership of the house and the house began life as the town house of a monastery called Priory . |
| 30 | Many of them were er sometimes we , you co got into a minefield and you could n't , you gave it up you know because er by that time I think there would be plenty replacements coming on the market . |