Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above .
2 Marxism came in good time to the Socialist Workers ' party after study , after reading the books from Europe , from international contacts , from the travels of our comrades , from the contact with the Communist International .
3 This means that what happened in imaginary time could be calculated .
4 I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire .
5 The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities .
6 His distinctive style emerged in Spare Time ( 1939 ) , an impression of leisure activities among British working-class people , in an edited structure of countless visual details , an overlapping sound track providing continuity .
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