Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parents and their witnesses had to travel to the Scottish mainland , this would involve them not only in time away they could n't spare , but also travelling and accommodation expenses . |
| 2 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 3 | The long legs have travelled , and not just through time . |
| 4 | Their settlements are not always on time . |
| 5 | Maybe I 'll abandon cookery lessons if she 's not back in time . |
| 6 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 7 | Contrary to the record 's title , REM are not out of time . |
| 8 | Not quite in time |
| 9 | You were n't in on time . |
| 10 | She got the 7.15 bus , feeling an anxious as a mother who is n't home in time for when her little boy comes back from school . |
| 11 | They 're all gone by the time you get into work and they ai n't back by time you go home . |