Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan .
2 Erm with a thing like this , I mean what I usually say to people it depends on erm if you 've got a lot of numerical data , oh you might as well have this back for the time being so
3 Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so .
4 In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language .
5 As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun .
6 To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed .
7 It stems right back from the time of Adam and Eve .
8 Thus was begun another chapter in the extraordinary history of St Clement Danes — a history that goes back until the time of King Arthur , who expelled the Danes from the city of London but allowed those with English wives to settle just outside the city walls .
9 ‘ I can run there and back in no time if you ai n't got the money for the tram , ’ I said eagerly .
10 Not only did she receive them quickly , but her answers arrived back in no time .
11 I 'll see you get it back in no time at all . ’
12 I will have you back in no time at all . ’
13 I 'll leave first thing and , as he says , I 'll be back in no time .
14 We live back in the time of fairy tales .
15 Back in the time of idealism it all seemed to connect : you trained more young people and the ‘ educated ’ sector of the economy would expand as a result .
16 ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant .
17 ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been .
18 A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that :
19 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins .
20 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins .
21 Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins .
22 It can travel back to a time 200 million years ago , long before human beings existed .
23 But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval .
24 I read once that when people get old and go senile , they go back to a time in their life when they were useful .
25 I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ .
26 This suggests that ri2 originated from the transposition of ri1 , but that this event dates back to a time before P.wickerhamii and S.obliquus diverged .
27 In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) .
28 Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule .
29 Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage .
30 The time of the execution is also altered , being brought back to a time traditionally associated with " dawn " executions .
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