Example sentences of "[noun pl] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Gough , for example , had 15 full caps by the time he was 19 . |
| 2 | He chuckled to himself as he drove , and had forgotten his worries by the time he had hauled two armfuls of grocery supplies up to his apartment . |
| 3 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 4 | It is usually about 9 to 11 kg 20 to 25 lbs by the time your baby is due . |
| 5 | And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 7 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 8 | I was on my knees by the time we unpacked the sandwiches and tried to find the energy to chew , and I recall making small high-pitched squeaking noises in reply to any attempt at a chat . |
| 9 | The fastenings flew off my jodhpurs and there had wriggled their way round my knees by the time the pony pulled up . |
| 10 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 11 | A firm conviction of the truth of all this , secure in the minds of the parents by the time the child is born , is the best insurance that the process will start with birth just as surely as does the process of feeding . |
| 12 | The heroism of the Glosters over 2 centuries had already won the regiment more than 30 battle honours by the time the First World War broke out . |
| 13 | She had regained her senses by the time she made her way back with his drink . |
| 14 | WizDom forms part of USL and Unix International 's distributed vision of the future , Atlas , where it lines up alongside OSF 's DCE , to which USL will add ‘ at least ’ half a dozen ready-to-run system management applications by the time it comes to market . |
| 15 | ‘ At this rate we 'll be millionaires by the time I 'm forty , ’ said Charlie with a grin . |
| 16 | Most caputs were in the lowlands , in river valleys surrounded by good quality fertile land , rather than in inhospitable uplands , and many were important manors by the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) , usually in royal ownership or that of some other great body , such as a bishop or an ancient abbey . |
| 17 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 18 | But that took about two years by the time , I purposely started smoking to keep it down . |
| 19 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 20 | Oh yes it 's been nine years by the time he goes |
| 21 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 22 | I can tell you — I was almost propping my eyelids up with matchsticks by the time Ben used to get back from the office ! |
| 23 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |
| 24 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 25 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 26 | While some of the fight had clearly faded from his team-mates by the time they reached the Oval , battling Smith was more single-minded than ever . |
| 27 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 28 | but I mean they work on a sort of cash basis and er the lorries just drive up , get loaded up , course you just have to queue , he said if you get behind six or seven lorries by the time you 've got your load then you 've got to get back to where your doing the job , then you 've only got about two or three hours daylight left , this is why these , these obviously go round there , say do three or four in one area and you get one load get it out get the job done , you know , and when his paid out cash that time of the morning they the do n't care you have to pay |
| 29 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 30 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |