Example sentences of "but by [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 32 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 33 | Two years later the Americans quietly dropped the whole issue and the , the UN returned to normal but by that time of course the situation had become what it was , er er a war . |
| 34 | ‘ Greg , I think you 'd better go and get on with your work , ’ Nina intervened briskly , but by that time Rachel had risen to her feet , her face flaming . |
| 35 | But by that time , of course , it was well and truly over between us and he 'd left for Australia . ’ |
| 36 | Mr Walker said : ‘ Tyne Tees wanted a different starting time in order to show highlights during or after the European game but by that time Boro had made arrangements for policing and so on and they refused the request . |
| 37 | But by that time stadia had been booked and in most cases new arrangements could not be made . |
| 38 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 39 | but by that time you 're experience in the C C Q. |
| 40 | Two years later the Americans quietly dropped the whole issue and the , the UN returned to normal but by that time of course the situation had become what it was , er er a war . |
| 41 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 42 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 43 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 44 | Rudd also had a hand in the Giugiaro-designed Esprit that appeared in 1975 , but by this time , as group engineering director , he had wide responsibilities for production cars , racing cars and Chapman 's new boat-building venture . |
| 45 | Indeed , I did not deserve so kind a one , but by this time you have received my last . |
| 46 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 47 | Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ . |
| 48 | But by this time Maidstone was beyond all reason . |
| 49 | It had its roots in the areas of Altarnun and Menheniot , ( where young Jonathon was christened ) , but by this time the family was well established at the house still known as Trelawne , at Pelynt , near the Looe to Polperro road . |
| 50 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 51 | I can imagine that there will be those who fill find his rendering of the main theme 's final return somewhat cloying , but by this time I was already far to engrossed to worry unduly . |
| 52 | He then served as curate at St Ignatius , Ossett and St Nicholas , Gipton , but by this time he was becoming increasingly involved in additional administrative tasks . |
| 53 | But by this time most of the bipeds — the only creatures able to develop stereo vision , a large braincase , together with forelimbs and an opposable thumb ( like Stenonychosaurus inequalis ) — were already becoming extinct . |
| 54 | But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze . |
| 55 | In 1936 Robert Wagner had maintained that Charlie 's pictures are always ‘ proletarian ’ but by this time the politicization of criticism had already assured a wider and more varied critical response to Chaplin . |
| 56 | But by this time , the great loss of life , and the increasing difficulties in obtaining weapons and supplies , had sapped the will of the Russian troops to attack , and the situation drifted into stagnation . |
| 57 | At the time of its merger with Powick , in the closing stages of the rundown of the latter hospital , the fusing of specialisms was seen to offer many advantages , but by this time it had already been decided to resettle residents in permanent community hostels . |
| 58 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 59 | A year later the issue of ‘ appropriate liberty ’ and indeed the nature of the French Union itself was still unresolved but by this time a Preliminary Convention had been signed between the Government of the French Republic and what was described , and recognized , as the Government of Vietnam . |
| 60 | Furious , Dr Dunstaple now seemed on the point of turning on the Padre and mowing the wiry cleric down with his fists , but by this time Louise and Mrs Dunstaple had hastened to his side and now they dragged him away , hushing him desperately . |