Example sentences of "by [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But because when we join up it will be on the back of a full weekend 's fixtures of FA Cup matches — and by that time they will have played 15 games for their clubs — I 've just asked them to keep a little compartment in their minds about England . |
| 2 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 3 | By that time they had all discarded their clothing . |
| 4 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |
| 5 | Neither Laura nor Bernard were able to attend this ceremony as by that time they had exported themselves . |
| 6 | They 'll find themselves chartered to carry pig-iron and cheap tin trays , just like everybody else ; and by that time they 'll be down in the South Seas loading rainbows and moonbeams . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , by that time they could be HIV positive . |
| 8 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 9 | By that time her leg was fine , and her manners were much better than before . |
| 10 | By that time we knew which creatures were most dangerous — the evil-tempered hippos , the unpredictable lone buffalo and the silent crocodiles . |
| 11 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 12 | By that time we both knew that enough was enough . |
| 13 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 14 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |
| 15 | By that time we were really longing to get back to England . |
| 16 | By that time we should have about I would say at least another ten thousand pounds in that account of yours . |
| 17 | Well by that time we 'll be into caravans wo n't we ? |
| 18 | No , I can only think , I think there was one game where he was available , but , he was a sort of a late availability and by that time we already had |
| 19 | By that time nobody trusts you . |
| 20 | By that time no-one was talking to Ram and Ram was n't talking back . |
| 21 | By that time somebody else had died |
| 22 | And by that time she would be safely in Boston . |
| 23 | By that time she was in bed all day , too weak even to joke . |
| 24 | By that time she should be at school , and nursery when she 's three . |
| 25 | By that time she 'd absorbed all her allowances , therefore it did n't matter whether she 'd |
| 26 | By that time she had become vitally conscious of the pressure of his hand on her shoulder . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 29 | Eventually he became the school 's headmaster but by that time his rather late marriage had somewhat tamed this fiery individual . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |