Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd put a terrible strain on the council : if they all wakened up , right down through the layers of time , there 'd be cavemen mouthing mindless questions in the barren , gameless desert of streets and traffic , and it would be the end of the world . |
| 2 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 3 | Take a seat aboard a flying desk and spiral backwards through the corridors of time on an exciting journey of discovery ; the story of Oxford University is uncovered to reveal its remarkable impact on Western civilisation . |
| 4 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 5 | The earthquake , paradoxically , helped preserve the ancient city both from the ravages of time and from the hands of looters . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 7 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 8 | Now , from rock nineteen ninety three style , let us move slowly back into the mists of time and a real rave from the grave : Elvis . |
| 9 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 10 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 11 | Nobody who has ever taken the trouble to visit General Gouraud 's observation post on a cold , dank winter 's day , could ever escape the hell-hole ambiance of such a deathly place which seems to reach out over the decades of time to shame and sicken the human race . |
| 12 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought such as He died out at the beginnings of Time , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The problem was not absolutely insoluble : Milton , after all , had managed to begin his epic very near the beginnings of time , in Paradise Lost . |