Example sentences of "but by [art] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 2 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 3 | You may think this is way over the top , but by the time he gets there the reader , if he believes ( as I do ) in Keneally 's veracity , will have experienced the same emotion . |
| 4 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 5 | But by the time he went to college in Minneapolis he was playing folk music on an acoustic guitar and learning to blow — not suck — the harmonica . |
| 6 | But by the time he arrived at Jesus College , Cambridge , in 1791 , having left Christ 's Hospital with academic honour and real regret , his love had not become a sufficiently urgent reality for him to declare it . |
| 7 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 8 | Daryl 's early musical experiences began by playing trumpet in the school band , but by the time he was eleven he had discovered the guitar . |
| 9 | But by the time he came to make Josephine and Men shortly after his film with Flynn , director Roy Boulting saw how he was going downhill . |
| 10 | But by the time he wrote ‘ The Quest of Erebor ’ ( perhaps around 1950 ) , Tolkien had come to think it undignified . |
| 11 | He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl . |
| 12 | Richard 's brothers and sisters would certainly have passed on tales of quiet desperation : but by the time he was seven or eight , things were easier . |
| 13 | The last light played on the cliff wall of the Jabal Hamrin , but by the time he reached the steep-sloping ground he would be covered by darkness . |
| 14 | Krenek was born in Vienna in 1900 , into the world of Mahler and Schoenberg , but by the time he died last December he had spent more than half of his life in the USA . |
| 15 | Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse . |
| 16 | But by the time he 'd cleaned the floor to his satisfaction , the broom had worn right away , right down , to the handle . |
| 17 | But by the time he wrote the Origin of Species he had begun to doubt that the physical separation of the original populations was essential . |
| 18 | He hurriedly tried to wind the window down as he could n't see clearly through the thin layer of frost and condensation , but by the time he 'd done so , the red Ferrari had spurted to the top of the ramp , its undipped lights blinding him , swung to the right and roared down the street . |
| 19 | Wycliffe prided himself on being reasonably fit , but by the time he was halfway up the hill he knew that he had a heart and lungs . |
| 20 | The man had her address and was going to write , but by the time he 'd got home had decided not to . |
| 21 | The former international , plagued by injury this season , was on the pitch for just 18 minutes but by the time he returned to the bench Holywood were home and dry . |
| 22 | Grant had always prided himself on his fitness and worked out regularly in his health club gym , but by the time he made it to where the stone coping of the sloping gable joined the chimney stack , he felt as though every muscle of his arms and shoulders were on fire . |
| 23 | But by the time he was assessed as fit for open prison in Britain he 'd become the leading figure in Australia 's organised crime world … involved in drug smuggling … fraud and firearms offences |
| 24 | He said to his assistant ‘ I do n't believe it ’ but by the time he had sounded the horn and applied the brakes the train had run over him . |