Example sentences of "but by [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 2 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
| 3 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 4 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 5 | In the following month , October 1989 , a new republic was declared , but by that time Soviet troops were already committed to leaving . |
| 6 | Derry 's first ‘ advance ’ factory was completed in 1951 , but by that time sixty-seven new industries had been established in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | But by that time a grand station had already been built in the centre of Alexandria . |
| 8 | Eventually he became the school 's headmaster but by that time his rather late marriage had somewhat tamed this fiery individual . |
| 9 | But by that time , he was paralytic and stayed in the outside toilet underneath the overhead railway . |
| 10 | But by that time , Faldo had already done the damage . |
| 11 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 12 | Acne spots may well lessen as you get older and your hormones settle down , but by that time , you may have some scarring . |
| 13 | But by that time Wyatt had introduced Sarah to ‘ my friend and distant relation ’ . |
| 14 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 15 | Whatever the latter meant , the order was instantly obeyed , but by that time the thief had whipped Estabrook 's wallet into his own pocket , and had stepped back , hands raised to show them empty . |
| 16 | But by that time Pius had become alarmed at the pace of change . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher 's last-minute play for the collection was in 1988 , but by that time it was too late : a contract had been signed with the Spanish government ( see interview with Baron Thyssen , p.6 ) , committing the collection to a ten-year loan in Madrid . |
| 18 | The girl 's brother was later to claim acquaintance with him but by that time Jarvis was in Russia and his book half-finished . |
| 19 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 20 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 21 | But by that time , history had been made . |
| 22 | She 'll phone the police , but by that time , who cares ? ’ |
| 23 | Katharin McMILLAN wife of DUNCAN McKENZIE should have been with them but by that time was dead . |
| 24 | But by that time it no longer mattered , for reports of similar effects in mammals had begun to appear . |
| 25 | Yonge also brought out a second Musica Transalpina in 1597 but by that time the English madrigal was well established and flourishing . |
| 26 | But by that time er we were n't there very long and the war finished and I was there in for a year after that in , in er Germany . |
| 27 | There were those who were interested and showed their interest in the following year but by that time officership was foremost in Eva 's thoughts . |
| 28 | But by that time Taheb had already embarked . |
| 29 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 30 | Erm , when the Bullitt family sought it to published it , it was published , but by that time , the kind of changes that I talked about at the beginning of my lectures , had already occurred in psychoanalysis . |