Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 2 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 3 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 4 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 5 | Inheriting the earth , or what 's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways , is a process which takes much fortitude and patience . |
| 6 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 7 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |
| 8 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 9 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 10 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 11 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 12 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 13 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |