Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dare n't become pregnant , so he had to make sure to come out in time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd do anything to go back in time right now , you know . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 5 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was undoubtedly a tendency to push back in time the establishment of a far-flung military hegemony . |
| 16 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 17 | To enter the prison is , more often than not , to step back in time . |
| 18 | Soon , though , Horsewoman Clair Dalton will be establishing a regular service around the town and for a couple of pounds , you 'll be able to step back in time and view the famous architecture in the same way that the Spa Towns Regency Founders did . |