Example sentences of "[subord] by the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 2 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 3 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 4 | Not when it 's dark nights cos by the time I get home |
| 5 | Cos by the time you said , What did I just say ? |
| 6 | Cos by the time you you 've felt it you 've passed it maybe ? |
| 7 | Everybody sees a different picture and of course most people see do n't see it anyway because by the time they look and see what 's happened it 's already happened . |
| 8 | Some women scarcely feel the loss of their children , because by the time their youngest is launched , their eldest has a child of his or her own . |
| 9 | The FTC is also regarded as being reluctant to pursue high-tech companies because by the time it is brought and the issues resolved , the market has moved on . |
| 10 | But I 've only seen one or two , can we think about photocopying them if it 's that thin , because by the time it gets to me sometimes it 's not legible . |
| 11 | See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know . |
| 12 | because by the time you 've got all the dishes done , the glasses have all drained off and then |
| 13 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 14 | but , yeah because by the time you 've paid your bus fare |
| 15 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 16 | For me it was a good thing to get married young because by the time I got into show business the marriage was already solid . |
| 17 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 18 | Because by the time I get to work |
| 19 | They did n't want his help , each one told him straight , because by the time he was briefed into what they were working on , then he would be away and they 'd have wasted the classroom time . |
| 20 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Anyway the argument is academic , since by the time I 'm 55 the Skye Ridge will be a London-owned Sport And Leisure ‘ Centre ’ , with most of Glen Brittle bulldozed to provide the car park . |
| 22 | It 's just as well I did , 'cos by the time we got back , this place was virtually surrounded . ’ |
| 23 | He had been urgently summoned by the sexton , whom the vicar had sent off on horseback , and he was annoyed at being dragged from his bed in Kettlewell , so early on Christmas Eve ; especially as by the time he arrived it was all over . |
| 24 | There was no time to think over this latest development , for by the time she got to the hall downstairs the doorbell was already jangling . |
| 25 | She was near the east bank of the River , five hundred paces south of the town , lying on a flat white rock where the crocodiles could not get her , though by the time she was discovered by a Medjay patrol at the sixth hour of day when the sun was at its highest , the vultures had eaten her eyes and part of her face , and the flies were so glutted that they could not leave the feast unless they were picked off . |
| 26 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |