Example sentences of "by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 2 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 4 | I think there should be a more stringent system of entry into the drama schools so that there is a higher standard of work achieved by the time they come to join the profession . |
| 5 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 6 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 7 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 8 | And by the time I got there I was very cold and hungry . |
| 9 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 10 | It was late by the time the meal was done and later still when the company rose from the coffee cups in the drawing-room . |
| 11 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 12 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 13 | Out of a desire to protest against the ‘ oppression and exploitation ’ he saw around him , he began to write short stories , by the time of his death over a hundred had been published . |
| 14 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 15 | By the time the beech hedge begins to grow and shade the border , the leaves will have refuelled their corms and died down . |
| 16 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 17 | The speed will then be dangerously low by the time that the nose has been lowered , and even more speed will be lost during the descent through the wind gradient . |
| 18 | By the time that the glider is down to 500 feet or so , an inexperienced pilot often will have forgotten the wind direction , and if he realises this it will increase his anxiety . |
| 19 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 20 | By the time that you turn onto the base leg you need your chosen speed and the airbrakes unlocked ready for use . |
| 21 | As soon as you think you may be pregnant , and certainly by the time you 've missed two periods , go to your doctor for confirmation . |
| 22 | It is usually about 9 to 11 kg 20 to 25 lbs by the time your baby is due . |
| 23 | Usually , by the time they have lost enough weight , they are totally fatigued ! |
| 24 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
| 25 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 26 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 27 | By the time he was 16 , The Montreal Herald was reporting the great success of his four-act play Esther , which he had written and produced ( and played a leading part in ) — shades here of his precocious grandson ! |
| 28 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 29 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 30 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |