Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 LESTER Piggott could be out of hospital in time to celebrate his 57th birthday on Thursday , his daughter Maureen said today .
2 He would be back from time to time , but never again as a mendicant .
3 We 'll be back in yonks of time … ’
4 The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time .
5 That would suit Platt , who would then be back in action in time for England 's next game against San Marino .
6 I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable .
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