Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 I found her just in time .
2 My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time .
3 And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery .
4 Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration .
5 They got it just in time .
6 I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years .
7 They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’
8 He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again .
9 " Where — " He checked himself just in time .
10 He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes .
11 A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see .
12 He did it just in time .
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