Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 2 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 3 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 4 | It traps us and pins us down in time , urging us to agree with Kierkegaard , that if life can only be lived forwards , it can only be understood backwards . |
| 5 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 6 | ‘ I — ’ Was dreaming , she was about to say , but stopped herself just in time . |