Example sentences of "by [art] time we " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 2 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 3 | By the time we arrive the house is usually wreaked , the kids are in a terrible state , and the wife 's been beaten up , and the father 's lying there stoned , probably taking half-a-dozen peelers to get him out of the house . |
| 4 | By the time we had reached Skala Maries and turned inland , I had mastered the gear changes sufficiently for Beth to relax the vice-like grip she had on my waist and enjoy the scenery . |
| 5 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 6 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 7 | The weather worsened the further north we went , and by the time we crossed the Circle it was snowing . |
| 8 | By the time we had crossed two more we had decided to stop drying our feet and re-booting after each one , and set off across the bogs in bare feet . |
| 9 | By the time we reached Tony it was obvious we would never find a crossing point . |
| 10 | By the time we had walked half a dozen or more lots of 300 metres , we were losing enthusiasm . |
| 11 | By the time we were packing the chutes we were both hooked and planning another trip . |
| 12 | Arriving at a suitable pitching site , I would erect the tent and Pete would fetch water and have a brew ready by the time we piled in . |
| 13 | It is past nine by the time we start to harness the dogs , and the sky is a little clearer , the temperature a little cooler . |
| 14 | By the time we meet Odd-Knut coming back to find us we are only a few hundred metres from the camp . |
| 15 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 16 | By the time we have fed the second and , thank God , final group of a dozen we are frozen . |
| 17 | It was late when we woke , and by the time we have cleared up the mess it is later still . |
| 18 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 19 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 20 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 21 | The round still proves the soundest of methods : even given limited rehearsal time , there was much security in the warm-up sequence , a point surprisingly made with This Little Babe from Britten 's A Ceremony Of Carols , and by the time we reached Runswick 's final party ensemble not a single face on stage I could see registered anything less than complete involvement . |
| 22 | Canetti had read more by the time he was 16 than most of us manage by the time we are 40 . |
| 23 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
| 24 | Mick Ronson : ‘ We toured the States followed by Japan , and by the time we came back to England , it was beginning to really snowball . |
| 25 | I think the final Ziggy Stardust tour was in England — that was the big tour — and by the time we returned , everyone was talking about it because Ziggy Stardust was a really good show . |
| 26 | By the time we got to Trafalgar Square the crowds were thick on the pavements and cheering anything that moved . |
| 27 | Night had fallen by the time we reached the centre of Barcelona . |
| 28 | By the time we got to the pub stomachs were beginning to rumble . |
| 29 | By the time we had cossetted one floor Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke 's legs were criss-crossed by lines resembling a noughts and crosses grid , and my jeans , saturated with a witch 's brew of chemicals , were gathering dust and fluff like a thieving magpie . |
| 30 | The fact that Hall 6 is a bare cavern with iron girders did n't matter at all by the time we had finished . |