Example sentences of "in time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 2 | ( Warner Home Video , 15 , £10.99 ) The Commitments Alan Parker 's tale of north Dublin layabouts forming a soul band , based on the novel by Roddy Doyle , will have you rocking in your seat : not only with mirth at the individual foibles but in time with the beltingly good music . |
| 3 | ‘ You can tell your squeamish friend he was just in time with his tripod . |
| 4 | They could be cured if they were treated in time with iodine , whole gland , or pure hormone . |
| 5 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 6 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 7 | Now breathe in slowly as you did in Step 1 but gradually raise your arms overhead in time with the inhalation until the backs of your hands touch the floor . |
| 8 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 9 | No doubt theorists are up to the challenge presented by the new results and will come back in time with new estimates , before they declare the proton stable . |
| 10 | His nerves jangled in time with the balls on the executive toy on his desk and his brain felt as thick and muzzy as the grey January sky above the skyscrapers of Manhattan . |
| 11 | Grace Road has a ‘ starless ’ society now , though that may change in time with the development of 20-year old Ben Smith , who justified the high opinions held of him by making his maiden first-class century in the first game of the season . |
| 12 | Ray Parker 's theme tune was transferred onto the SID chip as perfectly as you could imagine , so when you add the lyrics to the bottom of the screen with a bouncing dot highlighting the words in time with the music … |
| 13 | Then the first part is loaded , and begins with some bricks floating in midair — in time with the music they form ‘ ETE ’ ( short for Eternity ) , an excellent animation indeed . |
| 14 | To the first verse everyone claps in time with the music . |
| 15 | It 's best to try to memorise all this in small sections — say , six to eight notes at a time — until you can play each complete scale pattern ascending and descending in thirds in time with a metronome . |
| 16 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 17 | Carl Puttnam 's beautiful Mick Hucknall-style russet locks bounce in time with the throbbing , sultry beat . |
| 18 | Poised to begin his ‘ real work ’ as a missionary among the wretched of the earth , a holy man at last , he is paralleled in time with Tolstoy . |
| 19 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 20 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 21 | An alternative to concurrent validity involves comparing a test score at one point in time with another measure of language performance obtained sometime subsequently . |
| 22 | These are , first , the process risk by which a person with brain failure is likely to become increasingly self-neglectful and disordered in time with reduced skills to cope . |
| 23 | I concentrate on paddling in time with everyone else but my efforts are to no avail . |
| 24 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 25 | A man with a bald head , brown as a walnut , with a sweater knotted round his neck , was dancing with a fair-haired woman whose face Molly could n't see , but whose sunburnt arms moved mechanically , like a doll 's arms , in time with the music . |
| 26 | People were buying her drinks ; she was lifting her glass in time with the others , banging on the tables like they did . |
| 27 | Felix 's wife went on stoutly reading her poetry as if she were not shy , roaring to keep the beat against the Vietnamese and walking round and round the dining table in time with herself . |
| 28 | Alice 's heart seemed to be thumping in time with the train wheels as she looked at Harry 's glowing face opposite her . |
| 29 | It rose and fell in time with the drums and gongs which continued to fill the hut with their relentless clamour . |
| 30 | Urged on by their riders with short metal-tipped bamboo rods , the elephants lowered themselves slowly to their knees , facing towards the throne , and remained kneeling for a minute or two , their trunks curling and swaying in front of them in time with the cacophonous music . |