Example sentences of "by [adj] time i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 2 | By that time I 'll be upstairs . ’ |
| 3 | Given the chance , I suppose I 'd take the Flying Carrot to Bombay again , though by that time I 'd have taken parachute lessons . |
| 4 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 5 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 6 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |