Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 2 | Get me to the Church on time |
| 3 | Until then the queation for engaged couples here is n't will they get to the church on time , but will the church be ready on time ? |
| 4 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
| 5 | My teaching has always been that the way to good golf is the get the clubhead to the ball in time . |
| 6 | How do you get to the ball in time ? |
| 7 | Erm , whilst those credit approvals do bring reimbursement to the council over time , the equivalent amount to grant in broad terms . |
| 8 | Still fastening buttons , she hobbled to the door in time to see Travis down the beach , waving his hands to attract its attention . |
| 9 | This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time . |
| 10 | Altrincham , although personally I was looking forward to the retreat as time for winding down ! |
| 11 | The symbolic ordering of ageing with specific reference to the notion of time , will be analysed in the context of gender , historical differences and the total context . |
| 12 | It is also difficult to hit on an appropriate standard of measurement : it is clear that " past " , " present " and " future " all belong to the category of time reference ; but to what higher generic category ( say ) do moral attributes belong ? |
| 13 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 14 | Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed . |
| 15 | Andrew Pickett , Zammo Collings , Helen Pawsey and Spencer Windebank get to the prom on time , thanks to help from parent Peter Windebank . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , you are not , then you need to make the effort and change the priority you give to the organisation of time . |
| 17 | Short lost the first game to the Russian on time after failing to make 40 moves in his allotted two hours . |
| 18 | He is reported to be in the process of responding to offers of employment from other theatres in Ireland and across the water , and to be keen to return to the Lyric from time to time . |
| 19 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 20 | At first , you may still have accidents as you may not be able to get her to the potty in time , but she 'll gradually learn to hold on longer . |
| 21 | Blake agreed with his companion , and beat a hasty retreat back to the hole in time . |
| 22 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 23 | Charles had earlier cut short two engagements in the Midlands to get to the school on time . |
| 24 | This term is used to refer to the consistency over time of financial reports . |
| 25 | Now the energy L(T) received per unit time contains a factor due to the increase in time interval between photons and another factor due to their red shift . |
| 26 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 27 | If embryos of developmental ages different from these are required , the necessary deviation from this injection regime will produce a more asynchronous population due to the spread in time during which ovulation and fertilization will occur . |
| 28 | His eyes flicked to the man from time to time , making sure he came no nearer . |
| 29 | Anthony Powell finishes his twelve-part novel sequence A Dance To The Music of Time ( 1975 ) . |
| 30 | Such alliances tend to be as fleeting as the chance encounters and re-encounters of fictional characters in Anthony Powell 's A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951–75 ) ; and the conversation of young friends , as potent in all likelihood as any literary influence there is , is largely beyond the reach of the historian , even the contemporary historian , except as guesswork . |