Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] i come [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I go shopping every day , and by the time I come back it 's usually time for the baby to have her food at about twelve — and then she usually sleeps till about two , and then I cook lunch for him [ the two-year-old ] so that in the evening it 's a tea , although it 's usually a cooked tea . |
2 | ‘ I want to see you washed and almost dried by the time I come down . |
3 | But usually by the time I come out of Leo 's I 'm dying to get home . |
4 | Trouble was , by the time I came on , they 'd finished their chickens and were eating the baskets . ’ |
5 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
6 | By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track . |
7 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
8 | And by the time I came back she had started the smoothing-down process that she was so good at . |
9 | ‘ By the time I came home , on the third day , I had huge problems with feeding , ’ she says . |