Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Somehow , I 'll have to get away in time . |
| 4 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 8 | 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 . |