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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

By the time

In past sentences, can the time expression "by the time" be followed by the past perfect? Or just by the simple past? Could you provide some examples, please?

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Yes. By the time I had finished, they were too immersed to notice me I was desperate to go shopping by the time I had finished work. By the time I had reached seventeen, the effects of that experience were buried deep inside me.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yes.
  • By the time I had finished, they were too immersed to notice me I was desperate to go shopping by the time I had finished work.
  • By the time I had reached seventeen, the effects of that experience were buried deep inside me.
  • By the time I had finished that packet of lozenges, I knew I had beaten the habit.
  • I have not smoked since.
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Yes.

By the time I had finished, they were too immersed to notice me
I was desperate to go shopping by the time I had finished work.
By the time I had reached seventeen, the effects of that experience were buried deep inside me.
By the time I had finished that packet of lozenges, I knew I had beaten the habit. I have not smoked since.
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