Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must cost them more in time in getting that penny out you know |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but will it get me home in time to see Coronation Street tonight ? ’ |
| 3 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 4 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 5 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 6 | Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report . |
| 7 | ‘ And if you had n't got me out in time ? ’ |
| 8 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 9 | They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’ |
| 10 | He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time . |
| 11 | I found her just in time . |
| 12 | She took a shaky breath and reached for the coffee-pot , an invisible shell of protective self-defence closing around her just in time . |
| 13 | A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah nearly sobered up on Boxing Day , but ah caught it just in time , ’ a doleful customer told her . |
| 17 | They got it just in time . |
| 18 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 19 | Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England . |
| 20 | The servant got his hand to it just in time to prevent it falling onto the marble floor . |
| 21 | If she went straight home now she would make it just in time to pick up her little daughter from her next-door neighbour 's and escort her personally to her appointment . |
| 22 | He did it just in time . |
| 23 | I think the next person in the house to leave their pit made it just in time for ‘ Playschool ’ . |
| 24 | He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again . |
| 25 | The whole walk took in excess of nine hours , so not one to consider if you want to make it home in time for Blind Date . |
| 26 | But he did n't turn round and I saw only his receding back , the narrow shoulders squared , the bent legs stepping it out in time with his men . |
| 27 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 28 | The reason being that way back in 1990 the Leinster Division won the cup and its return to England was somewhat delayed , in fact , it did n't make it back in time for the 1991 competition when Western were the victors . |
| 29 | it did n't even make it back in time for 1992 when there was no competition so now it 's back in the UK it is appropriate that Western can enjoy its company . |
| 30 | I asked the University if I could be last to get my degree , I was so sure he 'd make it back in time . |