Example sentences of "because by [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey home seemed to take longer than usual because by that time I was dying to see what presents I 'd receive . |
| 2 | And we had an example of that , a good example this year of course with erm that in that , in the spring of this year John Major erm had to call an election before June twentieth I think the date was because by that time then parliament would have automatically been dissolved . |
| 3 | Because by that time the single glass of champagne she had drunk had subtly eroded her defences . |
| 4 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 5 | Because by this time I 'm halfway up Whitehall on my way home . |
| 6 | Because by this time you had moved on to explaining what you wanted me to do and I think I had missed some essential point . |