Example sentences of "by [adj] time [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time no-one was talking to Ram and Ram was n't talking back . |
| 2 | By that time she was in bed all day , too weak even to joke . |
| 3 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 4 | By that time he was sharing a flat at 46 Belsize Square , Hampstead , with Pamela Chrimes , and was making ‘ a gorgeous carpet ’ . |
| 5 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 6 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 7 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 8 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 9 | By that time I was chilled to the bone , exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic , sullen and depressed . |
| 10 | By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped . |
| 11 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 12 | The journey home seemed to take longer than usual because by that time I was dying to see what presents I 'd receive . |
| 13 | And by that time I was due to return to my work in Turkey . |
| 14 | By that time I was very hungry , my arms were getting sore and my hands were red with gripping the spade and digging into the sand by themselves . |
| 15 | By that time there was already an appreciation that very substantial currents of water were necessary to transport coarse sediments but , without systematic means of establishing precisely the sizes of particles and the range of particle sizes within a deposit , little scientific advance was made . |
| 16 | By that time it was difficult to punish the offender , and the Crown frequently abandoned the attempt to exact fines and arrears from ex-wardens . |
| 17 | I mean , I was one of those kids who never even saw a mirror until I was about thirteen , and by that time it was too late . |
| 18 | The worst bit was the recovery in hospital , by that time it was beginning to hurt . |
| 19 | Mrs Thatcher 's last-minute play for the collection was in 1988 , but by that time it was too late : a contract had been signed with the Spanish government ( see interview with Baron Thyssen , p.6 ) , committing the collection to a ten-year loan in Madrid . |
| 20 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 21 | Approval was granted upon inspection on the 19th March 1888 and the line continued to operate until 1953 ; by that time it was owned by the National Coal Board , thus becoming one of the first nationalised railways . |
| 22 | By this time nobody was paying any attention , just stamping round any old how . |
| 23 | By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable . |
| 24 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 25 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 26 | By this time it was snowing hard . |
| 27 | By this time it was towards the end of October 1190 and too late to make the sea crossing to the Holy Land . |
| 28 | by this time it was nearly 1.00 pm . |
| 29 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 30 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |