Example sentences of "[adj] by the time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged . |
| 2 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 3 | He therefore took up a defensive position behind a series of hedges , but it was 5 pm and almost dark by the time the two sides came into contact . |
| 4 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 5 | It was dark by the time the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings . |
| 6 | It was dark by the time the Loch Seaforth berthed at Stornoway and I had only a brief glimpse of the rugged Lewis coastline . |
| 7 | You will also tend not to feel tired by the time the local inhabitants are going to bed . |
| 8 | ‘ But he was unconscious by the time the Pitts died . |
| 9 | It was late by the time the meal was done and later still when the company rose from the coffee cups in the drawing-room . |
| 10 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 11 | But everybody 's starving by the time the bacon butty run is organised at around 7.30am . |
| 12 | One who smoked too much , that was evident by the time the car turned on to the autostrada going south towards Siena , its light and siren going although the roads were fairly quiet . |
| 13 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 14 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 15 | For example , a decision after the competing pair of hypotheses so a/sew a would mean that only the path so a was available by the time the competing pair seem/seam was processed . |
| 16 | In the process the wiring had become overloaded and was almost red hot by the time the trouble was diagnosed . |
| 17 | However , a problem arises if the medical prognosis or prospects of employment are unclear by the time the trial is close . |
| 18 | Never mind , we 'll have it clean by the time the pie 's ready . ’ |
| 19 | The employer may have reached this decision on purely strategic , rather than personal or malicious , grounds The employer may calculate , for instance , that a real commercial benefit can only be derived from gaining a market lead in a highly competitive sector ( such as electronics or fibre optics ) with a new product that would otherwise be obsolescent by the time the patent filing and examination process has run its course . |
| 20 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 21 | It can take at least two to three months if not longer to buy a house and any deal initiated during a housing trip may not be complete by the time the expatriate and family arrives in Britain . |
| 22 | But none of this was ready by the time the information system had to be despatched , so leaving a considerable residual task for further updating and despatch . |
| 23 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 24 | But it should be ready by the time the trees are loaded with the beautiful blushing white blossoms . |
| 25 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |