Example sentences of "in time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 2 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |
| 3 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 4 | They can be reliably dug out again only by averaging over many presentations so that the random background fluctuations cancel each other out , leaving just the potential shifts that are linked in time to the triggering event . |
| 5 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 6 | He was swaying his head in time to the Arab song . |
| 7 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 8 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 9 | His foot tapped the floor in time to the music . |
| 10 | Gloria was busy tapping her feet in time to the music . |
| 11 | Additionally , as already mentioned , patting a horse on its neck can be beneficial when trying to shoe a difficult horse ; and we pat it in time to the farrier 's hammer . |
| 12 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 13 | It was full of leather and PVC-clothed young people , banging their heads in time to the music . |
| 14 | The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sharp at nine a conch shell sounded and the temple courtyard filled up with Thais , dressed in white trousers with embroidered aprons , chanting and shaking in time to gongs . |
| 17 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |
| 18 | Mellanby arrived in time to be heard , and succeeded in changing the decision so that Florey was appointed . |
| 19 | There you will see thousands of cars speeding by , each with the driver alone , his head thrown back as he yells the words aloud , her fist slapping the wheel in time to the beat , thousands of silent screams haring up the M1 to get to that meeting on schedule . |
| 20 | This conversion of sound symbols in time to visual symbols in space was the greatest single step in the quest for permanence . |
| 21 | Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe . |
| 22 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 23 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 24 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 25 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 26 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 27 | The over-straining in capital expenditure : ( 1 ) will not be accompanied by actual construction to a corresponding extent ; ( 2 ) will lead in time to the curtailment of work already under way ; ( 3 ) will react unfavourably on other branches of production ; ( 4 ) will exacerbate the goods famine in every direction ; and ( 5 ) will finally retard the speed of development . |
| 28 | And we move away , flooating in time to the minuet . |
| 29 | When Edward suggested they dance Sally was grateful for the lessons she had endured in the school gymnasium with Miss Smart the games teacher yelling ‘ slow , slow , quick quick , slow ’ in time to the music . |
| 30 | Bypassed by modern roads , access is along narrow lanes which seem to take one back in time to a more tranquil age . |