Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 2 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 3 | I like Ian McKewan , Martin Amis , and going back in time Victor Pritchett , Elizabeth Bowen . |
| 4 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 5 | Disruption was minimal with the backing plant up and running again in time for the factory re-opening . |
| 6 | Swaying slightly and humming tunelessly in time with the tinny notes of the recording , Duclos waited until the door closed quietly behind her , then made his way unsteadily back to his seat . |
| 7 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 8 | Moreover the sequence of events will be understood as happening adjacently in time and situated adjacently in place . |