Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 2 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |
| 3 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |
| 4 | Possibly by the time PP has completed the list you will have grasped the subject ; you may even get it before word ten . |
| 5 | saying you know , we need a sum of money and Mary will help me with the marketing of that and hopefully after that we would , go on enough to keep us going , so hopefully by the time Christmas comes |
| 6 | Even by the time Pétain took over , Richard had somehow assembled 3,500 assorted vehicles . |
| 7 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 8 | Yet by the time George VI and his wife had guided Britain through the war and their daughter had come to the throne , the monarchy seemed stronger than ever . |
| 9 | The rain had set in steadily by the time Ruth got home . |
| 10 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |