Example sentences of "back [prep] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father arrived back from Cairo in time to spend Christmas with us . |
| 2 | Sometimes , when it snowed heavily , the filmmakers were terrified lest she would not get back from London in time . |
| 3 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 4 | He would be back from time to time , but never again as a mendicant . |
| 5 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 6 | Thanks are due to Christine Healey who always helps us and had arrived back from Kenya in time to rearrange the exhibition screens to a more attractive display and thanks also to Mr Derek Andrews , Manager of Blackwell 's , the University Bookshop , for generously sponsoring us this year . |
| 7 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 8 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 9 | We 'll be back in yonks of time … ’ |
| 10 | The words which I have read are plain : it was Mr. Vanbergen who said he was going down to Eastbourne , that he was going down as part of his business , and that he did not think he would be getting back after his business on Thursday in time to pay it on Thursday , and the concession arose out of the question whether or not the debtor could be back in town in time to bring it himself , because he frankly said he was trying to get a little more time . |
| 11 | That would suit Platt , who would then be back in action in time for England 's next game against San Marino . |
| 12 | He got to thinking how disappointed his parents would be if he did n't go back to Fyn in time to meet his father 's cousin . ’ |
| 13 | To cap it all , we then made a forced passage back to Oban in a force eight south west gale as Sam wanted to get back to Southampton in time for a wedding . |
| 14 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 15 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 16 | Back at Reckweilerhof in time for dinner , an old man was leaving the restaurant with a couple who were probably his son and daughter-in-law . |
| 17 | They flew across the UK , down the Irish Sea to Gibraltar , back through France and Germany eventually arriving back at Coningsby in time of an early breakfast . |