Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bins were already out by the time Cornelius reached home . |
| 32 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 33 | Be fucked out by the time I |
| 34 | I thought they , they were out by the time this book was published that er Maggie Thatcher was out , was , I mean this |
| 35 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 36 | Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know . |
| 37 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 38 | And who can say what will be going on by the time you read these words ? |
| 39 | I have a suspicion that somehow the heating was on by the time they reached their new destination . |