Example sentences of "[adv] by the time " in BNC.
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1 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
2 | They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny . |
3 | The shadows had grown long by the time Sandy McGlashan came back from Anderson 's howff . |
4 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
5 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
6 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
7 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
8 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |
9 | ‘ She trimmed up the north and east hedgerow quite nicely by the time I went up , Saturday lunchtime . |
10 | Most are speaking , walking and managing very nicely by the time they are three . |
11 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
12 | We have three separate heaps , side by side , so by the time we use the compost it is three years old , having been turned once each year . |
13 | So by the time each chapter has been read , the questions after each section answered , the knowledge review after each module completed , the final quiz and the video and class lectures undertaken , you know it pretty well . |
14 | Ron normally allows his athletes two weeks off , so by the time I arrived back at West London Stadium they were well into winter training . |
15 | I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone . |
16 | The atmosphere became charged within minutes of their arrival and the day was spent in frantic dashes , nerve-shattering band calls , fraught costume fittings and infuriating sound checks , so by the time I booked into my Albany Hotel suite at 6 o'clock I felt exhausted . |
17 | We are moving to Surrey on the 24th October , so by the time you read this we will actually have moved ! |
18 | So by the time you 've played around with type sizes , switched fonts and merged text with graphics the whole document is beginning to take on a whole new look . |
19 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
20 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
21 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
22 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
23 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
24 | So by the time you 've finished that mega-report for the MD on the 6:30 from Newark , you need some way of shifting the hulking brute from laptop to desktop that does n't involve circular bits of plastic . |
25 | So by the time an actual ( although as it turned out farcical ) landing took place in North Wales on 25 February , there was little gold in the chest to meet massive withdrawing . |
26 | His car was instantly recognizable , as was his profile , so by the time he drew to a halt there were three men waiting to do his bidding . |
27 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
28 | She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’ |
29 | So by the time you came here it would mostly just be Tommy that was playing ? |
30 | So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night . |