Example sentences of "be [verb] by [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 2 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 4 | If Kujau is telling the truth and has found the location , the treasure should have been recovered by the time you read this . |
| 5 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 6 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 7 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 9 | ‘ The gates of the city will be closed by the time we arrive , and wo n't be opened until morning . |
| 10 | Penelope thought it wiser not to point out that the Stores would certainly be closed by the time she got there , but felt she had done enough in showing her which bus to take . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't even be washed by the time you come down . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 13 | I certainly would n't coach it so I think you would be creased by the time you got there in two days . |
| 14 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
| 15 | MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this . |
| 16 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You said you 'd be gone by the time I got up . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll be gone by the time you wake up in the morning . |
| 19 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 20 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 21 | However , those at the high-end with stuff in the hopper like P5-based Unix multiprocessors are chaffed by the time they 're losing getting to market . |
| 22 | Secretary Andy Wilson said : ‘ I am aware significant delays are being experienced in mail being processed by the time it has to get to the mail trains . |
| 23 | Playful biting is usual in young puppies , but this trait should have been lost by the time they are about four-and-a-half months old . |
| 24 | The execution time of a RISC cycle is given by the time it takes to read a register , perform an ALU operation , and store the result back into a register . |
| 25 | I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 27 | Accell/OO — or whatever it is called by the time it comes to market — will have full graphical and object-oriented functions , Unify says . |
| 28 | The speed of the whole chip is restricted by the time it takes a signal to travel the longest distance . |
| 29 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 30 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |