Example sentences of "by [adj] time she " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by that time she would be safely in Boston . |
| 2 | By that time she was in bed all day , too weak even to joke . |
| 3 | By that time she should be at school , and nursery when she 's three . |
| 4 | By that time she 'd absorbed all her allowances , therefore it did n't matter whether she 'd |
| 5 | By that time she had become vitally conscious of the pressure of his hand on her shoulder . |
| 6 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 7 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 8 | By this time she had decided that I was utterly irresponsible ( in spite of my record toast-making ) , and she said that I should wear warmer clothes . |
| 9 | By this time she was out of bed and Charlotte was running upstairs to see what the commotion was about . |
| 10 | By this time she was more relaxed and less frightened . |
| 11 | By this time she was trembling . |
| 12 | By this time she had become friendly with Geoffrey of Gorham [ q.v. ] , abbot of St Albans , who persuaded her to make her monastic profession before Alexander [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln . |
| 13 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 14 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 15 | By this time she could already have borne him their two sons , Swegen and Harold . |
| 16 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 17 | Lowell , hearing her voice through the bedroom window , dressed hastily and splashed his face with cold water , but by this time she had gone . |