Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stories and legends may have offered some sort of introduction to the more distant past , but it may well be necessary to use one of the school designed local history units as a " bridging " unit to work backwards in time , in a series of leaps , in order to bridge the chasm between history within living memory ( which will have been the natural focus for much work at Key Stage 1 ) and distant periods such as the age of Ancient Egyptians or Romans . |
| 2 | She dare n't become pregnant , so he had to make sure to come out in time . |
| 3 | Some present-day achievements are motivated by the hurt of being ignored in the past ; they can represent an attempt to go backwards in time to recover early special relationships in the family . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd do anything to go back in time right now , you know . |
| 5 | To discover the Hollywood roots of Nicholson and his contemporaries , it is necessary to go back in time for a moment , to get a glimpse of the prevailing wind immediately prior to their era . |
| 6 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 7 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
| 9 | He is also the epitome of the New Man , and has been known to leave his office to arrive home in time to bath his daughter , Mary-Claire , and read her a story before bed . |
| 10 | In a late spring , the catch crop may not be ready to graze off in time to prepare a good tilth for the ensuing main crop . |
| 11 | And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Somehow , I 'll have to get away in time . |
| 13 | Would they be able to get away in time ? |
| 14 | Built at the start of hostilities , facing the estuary , it was now used by playing children , courting couples , and the odd customers who , thanks to Knocker 's cider , had been taken short and decided not to risk trying to get home in time . |
| 15 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 16 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 17 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 18 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 19 | My next-door neighbour agreed to take her , but I promised I 'd do my best to get back in time so that I could take her myself . ’ |
| 20 | Like the couple who left one of the rides early to get back in time to prepare the evening event ; and two hours later we met them — riding in the opposite direction ! |
| 21 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 22 | We need to leave Kings Heath at 6.15 to get there in time without breaking too many speed limits . |
| 23 | ‘ If we are to get there in time we must go at once , ’ Marian said . |
| 24 | Of course , if she had been going to get there in time for the beginning , she should have rushed back straight away , out upset at such times was the very worst thing for her mother and it would upset her to think that Peony wanted to go out immediately she 'd got in . |
| 25 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 26 | It would also need to pay attention to regional variations , since it is true , even in these days of mass mobility and the mass media , that to travel to a place remote from a major centre of population is to move back in time and rediscover the traditions and practices of an earlier period . |
| 27 | There was undoubtedly a tendency to push back in time the establishment of a far-flung military hegemony . |
| 28 | The rituals performed by the king-priest , particularly at the New Year Festival , were regarded as the repetitions of divine actions and were meant to correspond exactly in time as well as in character with the rituals on high . |
| 29 | It figures it 'll get one or two to commit probably in time for Spring Comdex and will eventually get five , but whether it 's out of this lot remains unclear . |
| 30 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |