Example sentences of "[prep] time [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 2 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 3 | PATRICK was back at Royal St. George 's in time to see the last couples finish their rounds . |
| 4 | The proprietor , Lord Mansfield , arrived on the scene in time to save the last stone . |
| 5 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 6 | Jack of Longleigh , Adam of Rochester , and Ydrys obediently fell silent , thinking that perhaps they had arrived in time to witness the last ebbing breaths of their one-time Lucifer . |
| 7 | yet the revival of his ‘ non-Gilbert ’ works has hardly caught fire in time to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in London on May 13th 1842 . |
| 8 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |