Example sentences of "by this time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 2 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 3 | By this time they had resuscitated him . |
| 4 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 5 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 6 | By this time they had reached the office and as David caught sight of the man sitting beside Rachel 's desk he said , ‘ Is this the patient ? ’ |
| 7 | By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky , and had lost some of its charisma . |
| 8 | At the time of its merger with Powick , in the closing stages of the rundown of the latter hospital , the fusing of specialisms was seen to offer many advantages , but by this time it had already been decided to resettle residents in permanent community hostels . |
| 9 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 10 | By this time it had lost most of its effect because of the introduction of a personal non-delegable duty on the employer in Wilsons and Clyde Coal v English ( 1938 ) . |
| 11 | By this time it needed reinforcing , we had recently lost several crews . |
| 12 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 13 | By this time he played little active part in the business , devoting his attention to the management of the Belfast Ropeworks , which he had helped to found in 1872–3 with W. H. Smiles , the son of Samuel Smiles [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | By this time he had hold of Liam 's feet and was pulling . |
| 15 | By this time he had published a major treatise on violin technique , and had fathered seven children , of whom only two , a daughter and a son , survived . |
| 16 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 17 | By this time he had a firm place in baronial society . |
| 18 | By this time he had become an enduring institution . |
| 19 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 20 | By this time I 'd left St. Martins so there was no more grant . |
| 21 | Er because of by this time I 'd er joined the Independent Labour Party and er we used to run news-sheets off you see . |
| 22 | By this time I noticed that one of the electras and an exasparatus had a fungal growth on the whole body . |
| 23 | He is one of the finest strikers so I suppose you ca n't totally blame the defence but by this time I thought we were in for a beating . |
| 24 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 25 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 26 | THIRTY-FIVE years later , as these thoughts of my encounters with men in uniform flashed through my mind , the colonel , who by this time I had succeeded in recognising as another former classmate , said to me : ‘ Come and have a coffee ! ’ |
| 27 | However , by this time I had outgrown my adolescent appetite for being shocked and had acquired some knowledge of parapsychology . |
| 28 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 29 | By this time I had begun to learn braille and a more constructive use of my white stick , other than tripping up people who got in my way . |
| 30 | By this time I had a pretty firm image of the tables in my mind . |