Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rose and fell in time with the drums and gongs which continued to fill the hut with their relentless clamour . |
| 2 | When she came out , Iris was on the balcony doing her morning routine of breathing exercises , straight-backed , the sleeves of her cotton robe falling away from her thin arms as they rose and fell in time with the rhythmic and somewhat noisy intake and expulsion of air . |
| 3 | Through the cloudburst I could see the old men laying out their prayer carpets under the arches , then , on a signal from the mullah , a line of bottoms rose and fell in time to the distant cries of ‘ Allah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 4 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 5 | Dexter had allowed himself to be hypnotised and still remembered staring into those wide eyes , as blue as the top of a ballpoint pen , with pupils that shrank and swelled in time to the man 's words . |