Example sentences of "by [adj] time they [vb past] " 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 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 5 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 6 | By this time they had resuscitated him . |
| 7 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 8 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 9 | By this time they had reached the office and as David caught sight of the man sitting beside Rachel 's desk he said , ‘ Is this the patient ? ’ |