Example sentences of "[vb past] by [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 2 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 3 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 4 | ‘ You knew by this time ? |
| 5 | Worse , although carbon dioxide was used to extinguish the initial blaze , the fire had by that time spread into the adjacent reactor building . |
| 6 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 7 | The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct . |
| 8 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 9 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 10 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 11 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 12 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 13 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 14 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 15 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 16 | The wheezing noise of the bellows had by this time excited the interest of some sentries on a large freighter moored nearby , but Maclean shouted out that they should mind their own business . |
| 17 | The science of astronomy had by this time totally undermined the old Ptolemaic system . |
| 18 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
| 19 | The papacy had by this time lost most of its former immense temporal power . |
| 20 | The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party . |
| 21 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 22 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 23 | The carving had by this time become careless and clumsy . |
| 24 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 25 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 26 | A majority of the EC , in which the Georgian Menshevik I.G. Tsereteli had emerged as a leading figure , had by this time adopted ‘ revolutionary defencism ’ , accepting that until peace had been secured they must uphold the front . |
| 27 | AFHQ itself , however , had by this time issued a number of order and signals in respect of both groups which were potentially in conflict . |
| 28 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |
| 29 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 30 | I had by this time met the latter . |