Example sentences of "but by [art] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 2 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 3 | It was recorded with the original Wedding Present line-up but by the time it was released in February 1988 , Shaun Charman had been replaced by Simon Smith . |
| 4 | The women were told it would soon be mended , but by the time it came for bed it still was n't repaired , although probably all it needed was a new fuse . |
| 5 | At first it moved at no more than a lumbering trot , but by the time it was halfway up the street it was moving arrow-fast … |
| 6 | But by the time it was furnished , the wool-based economy had begun to collapse and the family could n't support the house . |
| 7 | It would last for another six months , but by the time it ended , intimate revue was finally dead . |
| 8 | It 's just started to get dark but by the time it 's just started to get |