Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 2 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was amazing how people did rally round at times like this . |
| 5 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 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 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 9 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 10 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 11 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 12 | Gould had escaped just in time : a week after his departure a deluge of rain hit the Namoi plains , and the flash-flood that followed wrought havoc on the countryside . |
| 13 | Luckily they had arrived just in time . |
| 14 | I remembered reading the old nursery classic , Herbert Wells 's The Time Machine , but Wells 's time-traveller had gone ahead in time . |
| 15 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 16 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
| 17 | Holmes had fired just in time , and the hound 's teeth had not reached our friend 's throat . |
| 18 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |