Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back [prep] time " in BNC.
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1 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
2 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
3 | It 's it 's like it 's like going back in time the feeling about it . |
4 | 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 ! |
5 | And when you look far into space , you 're also looking back in time and we 're looking back when we look at the very most distant objects . |
6 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
7 | Some people only have to take the faintest whiff of the entrance hall of a hospital to be sharply transported back in time to relive a traumatic hospital experience ( endured during childhood perhaps ) ; they may feel shaky or even nauseous . |
8 | Reese ( Michael Biehn ) , a human guerrilla , is simultaneously sent back in time by Connor to protect Sarah and , unwittingly , to ensure Connor 's own conception . |
9 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
10 | And anyway , I 'll have to go next door to take over from Arthur if my father does n't get back in time . ’ |
11 | There were giggles from the trees behind her , and she turned sharply , furious with her maids , then turned back in time to see Li Yuan summon the small boy forward . |
12 | In other words , much of the story weaves in and out , sometimes travelling back in time , sometimes forwards , in order to achieve a practical overview of the struggles and triumphs of Charlemagne . |