Example sentences of "be by the time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there .
2 The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them .
3 Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job .
4 Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race .
5 Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet !
6 In consequence the Crown estates were by the time of his death probably larger than they had ever been before .
7 Many are indicated by dedications , but the circular churchyards , oratories , holy wells and inscribed memorial stones and crosses all indicate how widespread such Christian sites were by the time of the Norman Conquest .
8 It 's by the time I could get my gloves on .
9 But the funny thing is by the time I got home I still remembered it .
10 I hope I 've been by the time
11 We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over .
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