Example sentences of "by [adj] time i be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By that time I was chilled to the bone , exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic , sullen and depressed . |
| 4 | By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The journey home seemed to take longer than usual because by that time I was dying to see what presents I 'd receive . |
| 7 | And by that time I was due to return to my work in Turkey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By this time I am starting to use other grades of pencil , from 6H to HB . |
| 10 | By this time I am starting to use other grades of pencil , from 6H to HB . |
| 11 | By this time I am in Registry and Mrs Tamm is silently laying the results of her research in front of me . |
| 12 | By this time I was a nervous wreck and The house in Govan was a shambles . |
| 13 | By this time I was shaking and each new thud seemed louder and more terrifying than the last . |
| 14 | By this time I was thoroughly disgusted with these fat cats taking food from the mouths of the sansculottes . |
| 15 | By this time I was upright , physically at least , if not mentally . |
| 16 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 17 | By this time I was sorely in need of a toilet , and it was her turn to be alarmed when she suddenly grasped the meaning of my frantic gestures . |
| 18 | By this time I was frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog in walking boots with the effort of running in the heat , so I gave in and resumed normal speed . |
| 19 | By this time I was on my knees trying to make up my mind whether to bow my head in the direction of Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Eindhoven or the US . |
| 20 | I can imagine that there will be those who fill find his rendering of the main theme 's final return somewhat cloying , but by this time I was already far to engrossed to worry unduly . |
| 21 | By this time I was beginning to gather a few ladies together who were interested in having a go at making vestments . |
| 22 | By this time I was ‘ hooked ’ . |
| 23 | By this time I was a serious amateur naturalist with a special interest in anything in feathers . |
| 24 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 25 | By this time I was really getting worried , so I took him back and the doctor said , ‘ Oh , it 's all right , there 's nothing the matter with him . ’ |
| 26 | By this time I was in secondary school . |
| 27 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 28 | By this time I was so sure that any Friday 13th would mean a move that it came as no surprise when we left the Pit on Tuesday 10 October . |
| 29 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 30 | By this time I was 5ft 7in , weighed six stone , was covered in boils , had a mouthful of ulcers and had n't had a period for four months . |