by now **

By now I had given up hope for our plan.

More than 4,000 were to have been here by now.

She should be taking the hard way out by now.

If so, he would only be one of many by now.

By now two people would have started talking at the same moment.

He would have found out what these two were up to by now.

Some of the men had run for their lives by now.

Actually, I knew a lot about the general by now.

I thought by now they would have given him over.

By now he had gone for a day at school.

My son will have heard the good news by now.

By now he had probably long since taken his car and left.

The three of them would have been dead by now.

She should have heard from the hit man by now.

The one everyone says has to be dead by now.

By now, you must know what kind of man he was.

He must be near to running out of money by now.

By now he was quite certain she had left the house.

By now they had been about two hours on their way.

You'd think they would be used to them by now.

If you were going to try something, you'd have done so by now.

For all I know he may be dead by now.

By now, Washington had about given up on its old friend.

By now, people were getting used to running for their lives.

They could have had the child away from here by now!