Example sentences of "so by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 2 | We have three separate heaps , side by side , so by the time we use the compost it is three years old , having been turned once each year . |
| 3 | So by the time each chapter has been read , the questions after each section answered , the knowledge review after each module completed , the final quiz and the video and class lectures undertaken , you know it pretty well . |
| 4 | Ron normally allows his athletes two weeks off , so by the time I arrived back at West London Stadium they were well into winter training . |
| 5 | I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone . |
| 6 | The atmosphere became charged within minutes of their arrival and the day was spent in frantic dashes , nerve-shattering band calls , fraught costume fittings and infuriating sound checks , so by the time I booked into my Albany Hotel suite at 6 o'clock I felt exhausted . |
| 7 | We are moving to Surrey on the 24th October , so by the time you read this we will actually have moved ! |
| 8 | So by the time you 've played around with type sizes , switched fonts and merged text with graphics the whole document is beginning to take on a whole new look . |
| 9 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
| 10 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 11 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 12 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 13 | At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission . |
| 14 | So by the time you 've finished that mega-report for the MD on the 6:30 from Newark , you need some way of shifting the hulking brute from laptop to desktop that does n't involve circular bits of plastic . |
| 15 | So by the time an actual ( although as it turned out farcical ) landing took place in North Wales on 25 February , there was little gold in the chest to meet massive withdrawing . |
| 16 | His car was instantly recognizable , as was his profile , so by the time he drew to a halt there were three men waiting to do his bidding . |
| 17 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
| 18 | She was six years older so by the time I was 12 I was accustomed to propping my eyelids open well into the early hours , listening to her tearful ‘ he loves me , he loves me not . ’ |
| 19 | So by the time you came here it would mostly just be Tommy that was playing ? |
| 20 | So you arrive Friday night at night , seven thirty so by the time you got your hotel and checked in , da da da , it 's nine o'clock at night . |
| 21 | from you , then you get changed and then go , but , last week he took the car , cos when I got home , first I was late last Wednesday , well I say late , I did n't get back here , erm , until seven , so by the time I got home it was quarter past seven and I have to make sure I get to Weightwatchers between seven and eight . |
| 22 | And he said yes but it 's , it 's the accommodation we 've got , maybe it 's a Company move and they 've given them an apartment or something , seven months old , you know , that big , so by the time |
| 23 | So by the time we sit our exam we 'll have forgotten al , what we 've done ? |
| 24 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 25 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
| 26 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |