Example sentences of "by [adv] i [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well by now I 'm sure you 're way ahead of me . |
| 2 | By now I was low on petrol and flew back to Takali after Thacker hit the water . |
| 3 | Well , originally er I was involved in er registration , because there , with this very loose connection with the registrar , by now I was full time with the council , as rating assistant and rent collector . |
| 4 | By now I was able to speak their language well . |
| 5 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 6 | By now I was past weeping . |
| 7 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 8 | By then I was rich … but also bored . |