Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are a lot of flaws : the idea of combining four generations involves weaving back and forth in time which works occasionally . |
| 2 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 3 | The story is not an easy one to follow , particularly as it goes back and forth in time , and locations change quickly . |
| 4 | Connie 's visions of her past are expertly merged with the present as she moves backwards and forwards in time , following an order of association , not chronology . |
| 5 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |