Example sentences of "[adj] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged . |
| 2 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 3 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 4 | Fairfax and Lady De Marr have already had a few by the time I join them . |
| 5 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 6 | Isaac would have been two or three years old by the time he was weaned . |
| 7 | ‘ These , ’ I cried , ‘ are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ’ |
| 8 | Libby 's jersey felt rough on her arms after the bareness of summer , they wore wellington boots , not sandals , and the black rubber glistened with damp by the time they had crossed the field , disturbing the sleeping cows . |
| 9 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 10 | Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components . |
| 11 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
| 12 | It was dark by the time I 'd finished . |
| 13 | It was almost dark by the time they got on the motorway . |
| 14 | It was dark by the time Henry reached home . |
| 15 | He therefore took up a defensive position behind a series of hedges , but it was 5 pm and almost dark by the time the two sides came into contact . |
| 16 | It was dark by the time we were finished . |
| 17 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 18 | It was dark by the time he had finished with the left side of the road . |
| 19 | It was dark by the time he reached his destination . |
| 20 | It was dark by the time they had finished . |
| 21 | It was dark by the time the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings . |
| 22 | It was dark by the time the Loch Seaforth berthed at Stornoway and I had only a brief glimpse of the rugged Lewis coastline . |
| 23 | It was nearly dark by the time they reached the hut . |
| 24 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 25 | So the fringe players such as Preston , Ellis , Bachop , Cooksley and Dowd might have a very quiet tour of Australia , and thus not be march-hardened by the time they move into the five-match tour of South Africa . |
| 26 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 27 | Because most people 's range of social experience has become quite limited by the time they have attained adulthood , such observations are nearly always selective and may be hard to interpret or simply misleading . |
| 28 | Icelandic salt cod was cheap , but transport and storage facilities were so unreliable that it was often rotten by the time it reached the housewife . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be fully fit by the time of the international . |
| 30 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |