Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |
| 2 | The fact that most of them have already had their family by the time they commence the course is the most likely explanation . |
| 3 | Er it 's a bit difficult coming on the end of a debate cos everyone 's nicked your speech by the time you get here . |
| 4 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 5 | But he had revised his view by the time he wrote A West-India Fortune ( 1950 ) : there , and in George III and the Politicians , the two approaches were fruitfully combined . |
| 6 | The Lions have their best chance of winning a Test in this opening fixture as the All Blacks can be expected to hone their act by the time the Wellington and Auckland Tests come along in the final week of the tour . |
| 7 | That means they would already be exerting their influence by the time the microwave background was born . |