Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
| 4 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 5 | Daak jumped from the rock just in time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 10 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Feelings of being a martyr to the vacuum cleaner , or of struggling to live up to impossible standards of cleanliness , can take the pleasure out of time spent in the home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To be able to take action ahead of time requires above all the freedom to do so , unfettered by exchange-rate restrictions . |
| 15 | From then on , they delivered an album absolutely on time for an August or September release six years running . |
| 16 | She walked into the kitchen just in time to see Benny punch Garry in the face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ( ) =If Forest do n't get their act together in time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I passed my driving test just in time for the holidays . |
| 24 | But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I came into the hall just in time to see it . |
| 27 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 28 | Prolific striker Ian Rush is out of Saturday 's League encounter against Crystal Palace with hamstring trouble and the club are desperately trying to hurry the Welshman back in time for Tuesday night 's Coca-Cola Cup fixture between the two clubs . |
| 29 | One could use the laws of science to evolve the universe back in time to determine its configuration at earlier times . |
| 30 | Suppose every time one of your subordinates turns in completed work ahead of time you react by giving him a whole load more , what may happen ? |