Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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1 | Trying to compose myself , I got back home in time to make tea , but could do nothing except collapse sobbing in my mother 's arms . |
2 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
3 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
4 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
5 | " You got in just in time . |
6 | The next county was Denbigh , in those days before the ‘ bigger-is-better ’ shuffle took place , and we arrived there just in time to have the door of the first pub shut in our faces with the sort of clank against which pleas and arguments would be obviously unrewarding . |
7 | The condition can last for months , but it goes away completely in time . |
8 | He assembled them : he got out just in time , he joined his wife and children : he re-established himself as a manufacturer of optical devices : but those early years left their mark . |
9 | He arrived back just in time to avoid an overdue thunderstorm . |
10 | He paid up just in time . |
11 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
12 | He looked down just in time to see Liawski 's diaries disappearing over the edge . |