Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was already inside and sitting himself down by the time I spoke . |
| 2 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 3 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 5 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 6 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 7 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 8 | All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back . |
| 9 | It would all be over by the time he got there ! |
| 10 | The puppyhood phase is essentially over by the time the young dog is six months old . |
| 11 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 12 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 13 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 14 | As for the new US system of having a laundry pick up a bucket each day — the worst is over by the time you have put the diaper in the bucket . |
| 15 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |
| 16 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 17 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |
| 18 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 19 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 20 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 21 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 22 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 23 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 24 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 25 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 26 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 27 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 28 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 29 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 30 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |