Example sentences of "but by [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
2 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
3 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
4 | Eventually he became the school 's headmaster but by that time his rather late marriage had somewhat tamed this fiery individual . |
5 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
6 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
7 | but by that time you 're experience in the C C Q. |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Mrs Thatcher 's last-minute play for the collection was in 1988 , but by that time it was too late : a contract had been signed with the Spanish government ( see interview with Baron Thyssen , p.6 ) , committing the collection to a ten-year loan in Madrid . |
10 | But by that time it no longer mattered , for reports of similar effects in mammals had begun to appear . |
11 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
12 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
13 | Distantly he heard the report of another gun and felt the impact of other bullets shudder the bull 's body , but by this time its heavy black bulk was already sinking down upon him , lifeless from his own second shot . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | But by this time there was something very obviously missing from her play . |
19 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
20 | Lowell , hearing her voice through the bedroom window , dressed hastily and splashed his face with cold water , but by this time she had gone . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | There was other stuff in similar vein but by this time I had my hand on the Yale latch and was opening the door . |
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 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
25 | Indeed , I did not deserve so kind a one , but by this time you have received my last . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |