Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
2 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
5 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |
6 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |
7 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
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 . |