Example sentences of "[pers pn] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 2 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 3 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 4 | Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point . |
| 5 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 6 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 7 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 8 | Er had they by the time you were still at school come on to that new erm er system where you speak a lot more ? |
| 9 | Inheriting the earth , or what 's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways , is a process which takes much fortitude and patience . |
| 10 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 11 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 12 | Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs . |
| 13 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 15 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 16 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 17 | You 'll believe it by the time you leave here — ’ |
| 18 | Well I think if that was me I 'd have that done now in case you do n't like it by the time you you get married and that could be growing again . |
| 19 | I 'll suspect get it by the time they go |
| 20 | And of course it th it 's more often done that with the kettle of course , so that it 's it by the time you get to the end of the job you do n't want a cup of tea anyway . |
| 21 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 22 | If mail did not reach them by the time of their discharge from care , it was not intentional . |
| 23 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 24 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 25 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 26 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 27 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 28 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 29 | Toxoplasmosis infection is caused by a parasite and it affects 50 per cent of us by the time we 're 70 . |