Example sentences of "but by the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
| 32 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |
| 33 | But by the time he arrived at Jesus College , Cambridge , in 1791 , having left Christ 's Hospital with academic honour and real regret , his love had not become a sufficiently urgent reality for him to declare it . |
| 34 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
| 35 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 36 | But by the time the scheme goes into year-round service , in 1985 , computers will cut the time-lag down to just four hours . |
| 37 | But by the time they are met , the poor family has already moved several rungs up the socio-economic ladder and wants a house built with modern materials ; not an improved earthen house . |
| 38 | An object close to the camera , with a very short out-and-return light-path from flash to film , will be imaged while the sound-pulse is still at the back of the emulsion but by the time light from an object 15 metres away has reached the film , the sound-pulse will have reached its front face . |
| 39 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 40 | This , incidentally , was something of a retreat by Bukharin from his stance of 1920 , but by the time the present text was written he was being far more cautious ; the exuberance of ‘ war communism ’ had run its course . |
| 41 | But by the time that they were completed the largest space of all was the nave , which might serve various purposes — as a shelter for great processions , as a substantial public hall and meeting place ; but above all provided space for visitors and lay worshippers . |
| 42 | Sally was triumphant , but by the time Saturday came she was almost sick with excitement and apprehension . |
| 43 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 44 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 45 | To import a light aircraft from the USA may not be overly difficult , but by the time the cost of the U.S. Export Certificate , British C of A , CAA registration and inspection and ferrying are added up , there is probably little change out of £6,000 . |
| 46 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 47 | Daryl 's early musical experiences began by playing trumpet in the school band , but by the time he was eleven he had discovered the guitar . |
| 48 | These two approaches to medical treatment remained in use for several centuries , but by the time of Galen in the second century A D medicine had fallen into a state of chaos . |
| 49 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 50 | But by the time they got to Maidstone that morning , Neil realised that his passenger was unlikely ever again to face any kind of questioning . |
| 51 | She had saved enough to buy a length of material in the market , but by the time she had enough money from her wages to pay a dressmaker , the summer would be over . |
| 52 | It would have been better for her to have an abortion , but by the time she told her mother it was too late , so she kept the baby . |
| 53 | ‘ You could hope to convert a £125,000 barn for Pounds 80,000 , but by the time you move in you would probably find you have spent nearer the cost price of the barn . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 55 | But by the time they were back in Hollywood to do interiors at Paramount Studios , she deteriorated and had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 56 | But by the time he came to make Josephine and Men shortly after his film with Flynn , director Roy Boulting saw how he was going downhill . |
| 57 | Almost all of us start life with trouble-free feet , but by the time we reach 20 , there are inevitably some problems . |
| 58 | But by the time we come to following their strand along we know that these are not true . |
| 59 | But by the time he wrote ‘ The Quest of Erebor ’ ( perhaps around 1950 ) , Tolkien had come to think it undignified . |
| 60 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |