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a1300 Floriz & Bl. 151 Biþat hit was middai hiȝ Floriz was þe brigge niȝ.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 2839 Bi þe time þat þe sune ras, Strang cri in þa tounes was.

?a1400 Morte Arth. (1847) 99 By than that endyd was the fight, The fals were feld.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. x By than they were redy on horsbak there were vii C knyghtes.

a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 19 Be tyme he wase XVIII yere old, Of deddes of armys he wase bold.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlvi. 64 By y^t it was day in the mornyng, they were before Courtray.

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xv. 266 They cannot tell what is saide; it is forgotten by that it is spoken.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 82 By that these Pilgrims had been at this place a week, Mercy had a Visitor. View more context for this quotation

1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 356 By that time he had overtaken the poor flying Emperor, he was almost equal to him.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 123 By the time the villagers had broken their fast.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason iii. 63 Now was it eve by then that Orpheus came Into the hall.

?1509–10 Lamentacyon Our Lady sig. a.iv By the tyme that I came to the mount of caluary the wycked Iewes had done my sone vpon the crosse.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour sig. F By the time that the childe do com to .xvij. yeres of age..hit were nedefull to rede vnto hym some warkes of philosophie.

1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. iii. f. 26 By the time he had made these exhortacions they were come within throwe of their dartes.

1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iv. 246 By the time we came to mingle, we out-winged their Left Flank.

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vii. 184 By the time we arrived, my head was like to split with perfect fear.

1805 T. Holcroft Mem. Bryan Perdue III. ii. 15 How sophisticated is the brain of man by the time that he becomes an adult!

1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims ii. iii. 178 There are the men who go off their nuts by the time they're worth a million or so.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vi. 82 By the time that the principals are rehearsing regularly again the company are working without their books.

2008 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 16/5 By the time a snake handler from a nearby zoo arrived, the dog had been all but swallowed.