Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 2 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 3 | Emotionally you seem to be playing against time these days , and astounding loved ones . |
| 4 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 5 | Despite these difficulties with the idea of a static and unchanging universe , no one in the seventeenth , eighteenth , nineteenth , or early twentieth century suggested that the universe might be evolving with time . |