Example sentences of "back [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ fireside ’ monologues emerge from an assortment of inter-related characters and jump back through time to poor white Adam , ( Nature 's mistake ) . |
| 2 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
| 3 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
| 4 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 5 | He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine . |
| 6 | Not only does Orlando explore gender issues and sexual politics , in which Swinton is interested , but it also presents a sweep of family history , with which she can identify ; the family line stretching back through time , the ancient portraits in which one can see one 's own features . |
| 7 | Louisa crashed back into time . |
| 8 | He would be back from time to time , but never again as a mendicant . |
| 9 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Saving your presence sir , ’ said Sergeant Bramble , ‘ I tried to explain that there was nothing amiss and that you 'd be back in time for supper with Miss Nicole . |
| 12 | This event would presumably precede the potentials being recorded and it could provide an explanation for the apparent referral back in time in the first set of experiments , although it does seem electrophysiologically unlikely that there could be a neural change happening sufficiently early after the triggering stimulus . |
| 13 | PUB ROCK / Pint-sized rock ‘ n ’ rollers : Jim White steps back in time to sample the fare at his local |
| 14 | Walk back in time |
| 15 | And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’ |
| 16 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |
| 17 | For some , the step back in time brings only sadness , for others what they have seen will provide an impetus for the future . |
| 18 | You 'll find you 'll get your memory back in time . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ replies Craftsman Browne , ‘ but I 'm going to make the most of it — Geordie and I are going to hire a car and drive into the States to visit Yellowstone Park , getting back in time to spend a night in the Cadillacs Club in Medicine Hat … . ’ |
| 20 | On his return from the song contest his father died , and David 's mother remembers how David rushed back in time to show his father the trophy he had won . |
| 21 | The ancestor of most dolphins is not clear ( although this is a very active field of research at present ) , and with further work the records of most groups probably will be extended further back in time . |
| 22 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 23 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 24 | She traces the roots back in time ; she covers some of the more obvious ground ( with chapters on Happy Mondays , the Stone Roses etc ) ; she rights some wrongs ; she flirts with some myths ; she gives a platform to some of the previously unsung instigators ; she dumps a few reputations ; and , though imperfect , it 's as reliable a guide to current Manchester music as you are likely to get . |
| 25 | You could probably become far more healthy by the simple expedient of ‘ going back in time ’ in terms of some of your daily activity . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd do anything to go back in time right now , you know . |
| 27 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 28 | You 're back in time for tea ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Go down to the shop then , and buy the lot — if you think you can get back in time . ’ |
| 30 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |