Example sentences of "by then [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 2 | This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die . |
| 3 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |
| 4 | And maybe by then it would just be too late , and Yggdrasil would n't be here to deal with the situation . |
| 5 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 6 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |