Example sentences of "by this time [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable . |
| 2 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 3 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 4 | By this time it was snowing hard . |
| 5 | By this time it was towards the end of October 1190 and too late to make the sea crossing to the Holy Land . |
| 6 | by this time it was nearly 1.00 pm . |
| 7 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 8 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 9 | By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull . |
| 10 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 11 | In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris . |
| 12 | By this time it was broad daylight . |
| 13 | ‘ By this time it was 5.30pm in midwinter and snowing again . |
| 14 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 15 | By this time it was mid December and Christmas was only a week away . |
| 16 | By this time it was apparent that LIFFE had become a firmly established feature of London 's financial markets . |
| 17 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 18 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |
| 19 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 20 | So we called round but could n't find a record company , although by this time he was with RCA . |
| 21 | By this time he was regarded by MI6 as one of its most trusted officers who was very adept at handling the most complex and dangerous operations . |
| 22 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 23 | He then served as curate at St Ignatius , Ossett and St Nicholas , Gipton , but by this time he was becoming increasingly involved in additional administrative tasks . |
| 24 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 25 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 26 | Indeed , by this time he was so immersed in the project that , as his close companion of the time , Lady Sackville , pointed out , he was not paying nearly enough attention to either her , or his work on Britannic House for the Anglo Iranian Oil Co . |
| 27 | From 1337 onwards Ramsey was also in charge at St Stephen 's chapel , and by this time he was a wealthy man . |
| 28 | The firm of Beckinton , Wilson & Co. , iron merchants , was dissolved in 1836 , but by this time he was investing in a fleet of sailing ships to carry his own cargoes . |
| 29 | By this time he was universally known as Algy . |
| 30 | By this time he was well associated with Kent and on the death of his father he was left a considerable estate in Westcomb near Greenwich . |