Example sentences of "by [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 2 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 3 | By that time he had left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade . |
| 4 | By that time he was sharing a flat at 46 Belsize Square , Hampstead , with Pamela Chrimes , and was making ‘ a gorgeous carpet ’ . |
| 5 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 6 | By that time he had been twice smitten . |
| 7 | By that time he had opened the door at the end of the car . |
| 8 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 9 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 10 | By that time he had found a very individual voice . |
| 11 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 12 | By that time he 'd upped and gone . |
| 13 | By that time he could have arranged to be called away . |
| 14 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 15 | By that time he 'd turned her head so much with tales of the big city and the life they could have there , she 'd have followed him anywhere . |
| 16 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 17 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 18 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 19 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 20 | So we called round but could n't find a record company , although by this time he was with RCA . |
| 21 | By this time he was regarded by MI6 as one of its most trusted officers who was very adept at handling the most complex and dangerous operations . |
| 22 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 23 | By this time he had hold of Liam 's feet and was pulling . |
| 24 | He then served as curate at St Ignatius , Ossett and St Nicholas , Gipton , but by this time he was becoming increasingly involved in additional administrative tasks . |
| 25 | The next thing he knew — by this time he would have the undivided attention of the entire bar — one of the Americans tore his fur hat off and screamed , ‘ OK , craphead , where is he ? ’ while one of the bobbies reached into the open back seat and pulled out an attaché case that he had to spend an hour telling them he had never seen before . |
| 26 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 27 | By this time he had published a major treatise on violin technique , and had fathered seven children , of whom only two , a daughter and a son , survived . |
| 28 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 29 | Indeed , by this time he was so immersed in the project that , as his close companion of the time , Lady Sackville , pointed out , he was not paying nearly enough attention to either her , or his work on Britannic House for the Anglo Iranian Oil Co . |
| 30 | By this time he and the Captain were accustomed to conversing against a background of the Brigadier 's sotto voce lamentations . |