Example sentences of "but by that time [pers pn] " 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 | but by that time you 're experience in the C C Q. |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | But by that time it no longer mattered , for reports of similar effects in mammals had begun to appear . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |