Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 3 | John Dalton 's action seems to have been very near in time to the crisis in his own life when he was temporarily imprisoned for his support of the Earl of Lancaster . |
| 4 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 5 | Remembering the dangers of our two traps , may I propose that we take an imaginative journey back in time to the year 1700 ? |
| 6 | Although the word aromatherapy was coined in the 1920s by the French chemist René Gattefossé , first we shall aim the historical telescope much further back in time to The Beginning . |
| 7 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 8 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 9 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 10 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
| 11 | Still to come : Princes Risborough travels back in time to the summer of nineteen forty . |
| 12 | Did he mean that the constitution must exist prior in time to the government or that the principles of the constitution should be superior in character , and binding in authority , to the actions of government ? |
| 13 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 14 | In a third class of cases we may take the latest condition , the one closest in time to the effect , as the cause . |