Example sentences of "by this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the English reader has a label ready to tie on to Theophile Gautier ; and by this time we can guess what is written on it — ‘ arid aestheticism ’ . |
| 2 | By this time we were only a few yards from him and the car had almost stopped . |
| 3 | By this time we were all soaked to the skin , so we gave up , knowing that she would go off somewhere and have a good sleep . |
| 4 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 5 | Indeed by this time we were so in tune with one another that explanations were unnecessary . |
| 6 | By this time we were climbing towards a ridge . |
| 7 | By this time they were starting to review the situation steadily , forecasting the Duke of Atholl 's likely moves , wording formal requests for warrants to meet in larger groups , arguing furiously over the likelihood of being able to get weapons from the armouries at Atholl or Taymouth Castle . |
| 8 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 9 | By this time they are approaching the borders of the Promised Land , and minds have turned to plans for invasion . |
| 10 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 11 | By this time they are more able to fend for themselves , and have a better chance of survival . |
| 12 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 13 | By this time they had resuscitated him . |
| 14 | I think by this time they must be dreading the thought of another signal from the Ariadne . |
| 15 | By this time they were several miles from Humberside and , the climb completed , they loosened the formation and Spencer scanner the cockpit . |
| 16 | By this time they were living in America , in Palm Beach , ‘ really because Garth wanted to ’ . |
| 17 | By this time they might have gained a portfolio They might well have got hooked . |
| 18 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 19 | By this time they had been chucked out of the garden of course . |
| 20 | By this time they had reached the office and as David caught sight of the man sitting beside Rachel 's desk he said , ‘ Is this the patient ? ’ |
| 21 | By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable . |
| 22 | By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction . |
| 23 | By this time it was past 3.30 , the light was fading fast , and the blizzard that the ignored weatherman had warned would sweep the Highlands was whipping into action . |
| 24 | By this time it was snowing hard . |
| 25 | By this time it was towards the end of October 1190 and too late to make the sea crossing to the Holy Land . |
| 26 | By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky , and had lost some of its charisma . |
| 27 | by this time it was nearly 1.00 pm . |
| 28 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 29 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 30 | By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull . |