Example sentences of "[v-ing] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 2 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 3 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 4 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 5 | At six months old , she 's already visited three mills — perhaps she will attend a formulation meeting by the time she 's two ? |
| 6 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 7 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 8 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 9 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 10 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 11 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 12 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 13 | Roirbak was physically shaking by the time he 'd broken the connection with Jahsaxa . |
| 14 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 15 | In photographs I 'm already scowling by the time I 'm two : in an Argyle Street photographer 's studio , clutching a rubber doll , dressed in a tailored coat with a velvet collar and an enormous bow in my hair ; or paddling with my parents in the sea , somewhere off the coast of Ireland . |
| 16 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 17 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 18 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 19 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 20 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 21 | It was raining by the time they stopped for the night . |
| 22 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 23 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 24 | The Diocesan Advisory Committee and the local Planning Authority have given the go-ahead for a Faculty from the Chancellor of the Diocese to install a new heating system in St. John 's , and hopefully , it will be in and working by the time next winter comes . |
| 25 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |