Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stretch marks are a normal reaction to the skin stretching to accommodate the growing baby , and fade away in time . |
| 2 | We have a lot to learn here , both about the most effective and workable formats for such a document , about the way in which we can most usefully and perceptively make comments and in ways which ( again ) fit practically into time demands . |
| 3 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
| 4 | For example , they decline sharply in times of war , as they did in Europe during both the two ‘ World ’ wars . |
| 5 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |
| 6 | The time component is negligible in the classical limit of fields which vary slowly with time . |
| 7 | Documentary sources vary widely over time and in quality . |
| 8 | During the death story Tin Roof tells Someone that they do n't ‘ move in time ’ ( 133/329 ) , but when he comes back to life , Larry feels as if he ‘ live[s] backwards ’ ( 104/300 ) and hears conversations ‘ in waves that run backwards through time ’ ( 103/299 ) . |
| 9 | Some of these zones also vary markedly with time — through the day ; with the tides , and therefore with the phases of the moon ; by season ; and sometimes in cycles of several years ( see El Niño , overleaf ) . |
| 10 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 11 | Congestion costs vary hugely with time . |
| 12 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
| 13 | Slorne turned away and stared out through the top of her cage as if to say , ‘ There , where the skies are , where the great clouds drift and the winds blow endlessly through time , seek there and you will find what Minch needs . ’ |
| 14 | But I think er with a big family like mother had got , she used to like her divi day erm for erm you know , well say save up , well it used to come round about May and you 'd think well just , you know just in time for the summer shoes or something you know . |
| 15 | Must make sure we get home in time to watch it . ’ |
| 16 | You did very well to have gone birthday and get home in time for , whatever time it was you did |
| 17 | who you 're supposed to be worry until you get there on time . |
| 18 | So , three ca get there on time , let them set the clock by you , people are more forgiving for somebody I think if you are a little bit late , than if you 're too early . |
| 19 | Get there on time to see the Silver Swan move . |
| 20 | They 've got two fire stations , but all the houses are so far away they never get there in time . |
| 21 | I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down . |
| 22 | Like words , social institutions , customs , and beliefs all change drastically over time . |
| 23 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 24 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 25 | In one year 's time I would be doing At each stage you move backwards through time and ask your unconscious mind to help you see a picture of yourself being highly successful on your way to completion of your objectives . |
| 26 | Their friend Otto Korn , the physicist , had shown that particles move backwards in time . |
| 27 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 28 | Note that to add we move forward in time or clockwise around the numbers . |
| 29 | To subtract , we move backward in time , or anti-clockwise around the numbers . |
| 30 | They do not live as a unit , together , but as two separate people whose lives converge briefly from time to time . |