Example sentences of "but by [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are . |
| 32 | She had saved enough to buy a length of material in the market , but by the time she had enough money from her wages to pay a dressmaker , the summer would be over . |
| 33 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 34 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |
| 35 | Walking forward , face scarlet , legs turned to jelly and arms stiff and awkward , she felt like a marionette , but by the time she had shown the third model , ‘ Wicked Lady ’ , she had begun almost to enjoy herself . |
| 36 | She could hear a tiny voice somewhere , talking and pausing , as if somebody 's radio was interfering with the music , but by the time she left the room it had stopped . |
| 37 | Fred 's trousers were still around his ankles and his movement was hurting her , but by the time she had managed to free one of her legs from beneath him he had finished . |
| 38 | I do n't think the female journalist would have gone if she 'd known , but by the time she realised it was too late . |
| 39 | A quick glance through the window showed his car still parked outside , but by the time she had showered and breakfasted she saw that a mechanic was at work on it , and half an hour later her doorbell rang . |
| 40 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 41 | She scurried around the corner into Barley Hill , but by the time she reached number 52 her hair was glistening with raindrops . |
| 42 | She said goodbye to him but by the time she had entered the hotel , Lubor was already far from her thoughts . |
| 43 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 44 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 45 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 46 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 47 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
| 48 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 49 | Somehow I got back up and completed the climb — but by the time I hobbled and shuffled back to the sacks , the sun was already casting its final , blood red spotlight on Cloggy 's slabs and buttresses . |
| 50 | But by the time I went to University Jung was actually more hated than Freud was . |
| 51 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 52 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 53 | Er , but by the time I had my passport so I thought may not get a job again better to try the luck somewhere else . |
| 54 | ‘ I suspect a good deal , but by the time I 've tracked Garry down you 'll be an open book . |
| 55 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 56 | I 'm not bragging , but by the time I really started to look for Carol Flaxman I knew it would be a matter of hours rather than days . |
| 57 | I put the visor down before I got out on to Gresham Street and almost walked into the edge of a glass door , but by the time I got to the Kawasaki my eyes had adjusted themselves . |
| 58 | ‘ But by the time I was eighteen , I realised that , as much as I loved studying the past , my greatest joy came from — well , I suppose you 'd describe it as planning things and watching them grow . ’ |
| 59 | She was physically weak , but by the time I left she was regaining her strength and her spirit and commitment remain unchanged . |
| 60 | But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ? |