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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Somehow , I 'll have to get away in time . |
| 6 | Would they be able to get away in time ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We need to leave Kings Heath at 6.15 to get there in time without breaking too many speed limits . |
| 10 | ‘ If we are to get there in time we must go at once , ’ Marian said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If she were still in Britain , it would be too late for her to say much in time for morning editions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |