Example sentences of "by [adj] time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 2 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 3 | Given the chance , I suppose I 'd take the Flying Carrot to Bombay again , though by that time I 'd have taken parachute lessons . |
| 4 | By that time I was chilled to the bone , exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic , sullen and depressed . |
| 5 | By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped . |
| 6 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 7 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 8 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 9 | The journey home seemed to take longer than usual because by that time I was dying to see what presents I 'd receive . |
| 10 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 11 | By that time I 'll be upstairs . ’ |
| 12 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 13 | By that time I 'd heard my pimp was in custody , and I started renting a flat . |
| 14 | Erm By that time I mean the there had been lots of problems in other cities . |
| 15 | By that time I had copied her training set-up in my own lab , and we were able to repeat the entire experiment as before . |
| 16 | Many of them were er sometimes we , you co got into a minefield and you could n't , you gave it up you know because er by that time I think there would be plenty replacements coming on the market . |
| 17 | And by that time I was due to return to my work in Turkey . |
| 18 | By that time I was very hungry , my arms were getting sore and my hands were red with gripping the spade and digging into the sand by themselves . |
| 19 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 20 | By that time I had already established because I did the documentary stuff , I 'd already established the ownership of the house and the house began life as the town house of a monastery called Priory . |
| 21 | By that time I 'd really stopped noticing whether people are male or female and just got on with the physics . |
| 22 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 23 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 24 | By this time I 'd left St. Martins so there was no more grant . |
| 25 | By this time I was a nervous wreck and The house in Govan was a shambles . |
| 26 | THIRTY-FIVE years later , as these thoughts of my encounters with men in uniform flashed through my mind , the colonel , who by this time I had succeeded in recognising as another former classmate , said to me : ‘ Come and have a coffee ! ’ |
| 27 | By this time I was shaking and each new thud seemed louder and more terrifying than the last . |
| 28 | By this time I was thoroughly disgusted with these fat cats taking food from the mouths of the sansculottes . |
| 29 | By this time I was upright , physically at least , if not mentally . |
| 30 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |