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 | Isaac would have been two or three years old by the time he was weaned . |
| 5 | ‘ These , ’ I cried , ‘ are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was dark by the time I 'd finished . |
| 8 | It was almost dark by the time they got on the motorway . |
| 9 | It was dark by the time Henry reached home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was dark by the time we were finished . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was dark by the time he had finished with the left side of the road . |
| 14 | It was dark by the time he reached his destination . |
| 15 | It was dark by the time they had finished . |
| 16 | It was dark by the time the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings . |
| 17 | It was dark by the time the Loch Seaforth berthed at Stornoway and I had only a brief glimpse of the rugged Lewis coastline . |
| 18 | It was nearly dark by the time they reached the hut . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be fully fit by the time of the international . |
| 24 | I feel quite fit by the time I get back , you know by the time I 've done |
| 25 | Of course , even within the stated parameters , comprehensiveness is an impossible goal , because some publications escape the net , or are listed so late that they have gone out of print or are out-of-date by the time they appear . |
| 26 | The problem is , to some extent , that because of the research involved and other factors , such offerings are often out-of-date by the time of publication . |
| 27 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 28 | The Coln Valley Smokery was well alight by the time firemen arrived . |
| 29 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 30 | He says your when a ambulance comes for people who are sick they have the and there 'll be somebody who maybe really seriously ill by the time tha that they ask where to get to such and such a place by the time they 're there sometimes the people dead ! |