Example sentences of "but by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 2 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
| 3 | But by the time Fokine produced The Firebird he had developed his mimed dance much further . |
| 4 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 5 | You may think this is way over the top , but by the time he gets there the reader , if he believes ( as I do ) in Keneally 's veracity , will have experienced the same emotion . |
| 6 | Fibres had been one of ICI 's big money spinners , but by the time Haslam joined the division nylon was already making a loss and polyester was about to collapse , having been a ‘ jewel in the crown ’ . |
| 7 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 8 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 9 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 10 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 11 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 12 | A fall in the price of meat suggests that there is no grain to feed livestock — but by the time this happens the famine is about to begin . |
| 13 | But by the time he went to college in Minneapolis he was playing folk music on an acoustic guitar and learning to blow — not suck — the harmonica . |
| 14 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 15 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 16 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 17 | But by the time they both reached her bedroom it was clear that , whatever her first reaction , Mrs Browning was now in a world of her own . |
| 18 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 19 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 20 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 21 | Hopeless romantics , Sox fans come back each Spring for more , but by the time of this Orioles game last year were already conceding that the 1991 team was not one on which to pin their perennial dreams . |
| 22 | But by the time of Charlemagne the majority of warriors were on horseback , though it is not clear if they actually fought from horseback or if they used the horses simply as rapid transport for traditional Frankish foot soldiers . |
| 23 | But by the time of the Hinkley C Inquiry , the CEGB had firmly opted for the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 24 | But by the time Eachuinn Odhar 's great lymphad led the other galleys sweeping back in triumph along the Sound of Mull , Ruari and Luch had told the bees that Lachlan Cattanach had a fine bull-voiced boy , named Alan . |
| 25 | The main force should have got into the town under the cover of a raid by the RAF , but by the time they were at the foot of the escarpment , this was almost over . |
| 26 | But by the time these ‘ new ’ results had been published , the damage had been done . |
| 27 | Breakfast was difficult , bringing with it the aroma of kippers and the sight of poached eggs quivering on plates , but by the time our lunch flask was delivered , people were perking up and looking forward to the task ahead . |
| 28 | But by the time the decree came through , Herbert had discovered that no place was available at Summerhill . |
| 29 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 30 | It was recorded with the original Wedding Present line-up but by the time it was released in February 1988 , Shaun Charman had been replaced by Simon Smith . |