Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
| 2 | Marxism came in good time to the Socialist Workers ' party after study , after reading the books from Europe , from international contacts , from the travels of our comrades , from the contact with the Communist International . |
| 3 | What happened in that time ? |
| 4 | This means that what happened in imaginary time could be calculated . |
| 5 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ Leith cut in this time , feeling more than a trifle puzzled , ‘ if you have n't told anyone about Rosemary , which must mean you have n't told anyone where she lives , how on earth did your cousin know where to look ? ’ |
| 7 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 8 | I would n't have covered half the things that we covered in that time , yeah ? |
| 9 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 10 | more time spent on devolution resulted in less time spent ‘ running ’ the school — teachers expected to spend their time educating the pupils rather than running a business ; |
| 11 | We learned in that time who our friends were . |
| 12 | His distinctive style emerged in Spare Time ( 1939 ) , an impression of leisure activities among British working-class people , in an edited structure of countless visual details , an overlapping sound track providing continuity . |
| 13 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 14 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |