Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 2 | If control and data signals are propagated through the circuits of a computer only at time instants controlled by a master " clock " or pulse generator , then we have a synchronous computer . |
| 3 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 4 | However , these can only be taken up by larger farmers with access to credit , with a lower vulnerability to the risk that the innovations imply , and with the economic and local political power to assemble all the necessary physical inputs together in time . |
| 5 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
| 6 | FALLEN star Arazi missed his chance to shine again at Longchamp yesterday , but Henry Cecil got back among the big winners just in time for the St Leger . |
| 7 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 8 | Daak jumped from the rock just in time . |
| 9 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 10 | Dolly hopped back to the bedroom just in time , for a moment later up came Linda and Ella to say that as Sergeant Joe was out , their mum had asked them to keep her company for a bit . |
| 11 | She breathed relief and opened her eyes just in time to see him disappear through the wire gate . |
| 12 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 13 | There is a great deal more to time than meets the eye , or has , in fact , ever been ‘ explained ’ by that unprincipled scoundrel , A. Einstein , Esq . |
| 14 | The increased demands both in time and energy are far outweighed by the long-term benefits as the job of teaching actually becomes easier and more enjoyable when everyone , including parents and children , share the same sense of purpose and direction . |
| 15 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 16 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 17 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 18 | To be able to take action ahead of time requires above all the freedom to do so , unfettered by exchange-rate restrictions . |
| 19 | From then on , they delivered an album absolutely on time for an August or September release six years running . |
| 20 | I know you 'll understand when I say my husband 's a one for the usquebaugh , I was about to correct him with the pressure-cooker once but I remembered my Victorian values just in time . |
| 21 | She walked into the kitchen just in time to see Benny punch Garry in the face . |
| 22 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 23 | Hering stated that a cure should proceed : from above , downwards — from the head or upper regions of the body down towards the feet ; from within , out — from the internal organs out to the joints or skin ; from more important to less important organs — from the liver , heart or lungs out to the joints or skin ; from the present backwards in time — going back into the patient 's medical history . |
| 24 | Moving from the present backwards in time implies that one can , with patience , go back into a patient 's past medical history correcting successive imbalances — rather like peeling an onion layer by layer — until the original , deeply submerged imbalance is uncovered and corrected . |
| 25 | Richmond and Hounslow , who with great ingenuity produced tea and cakes right on time with the aid of one small electric kettle and several ‘ commandeered ’ thermos flasks ! |
| 26 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 27 | ( ) =If Forest do n't get their act together in time . |
| 28 | She looked out of her bedroom window just in time to see a dark figure leading Bathsheba 's horse and cart out of the field . |
| 29 | I passed my driving test just in time for the holidays . |
| 30 | The novel traces these lives backwards in time , across four continents : from Zinalco Shimomura , a poet and academic in Arizona , to Shimmers , the schoolboy turned member of the bohemian ‘ Highgate set ’ in England , to Urim 's origins as Roshan , a Punjabi Muslim in British India . |