Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not |
| 2 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |
| 3 | I turned just in time to see the storm-door across the landing shutting gently . |
| 4 | I always make sure I get back in time for tea . ’ |
| 5 | I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down . |
| 6 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 7 | The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation . |
| 8 | Thus , negotiations will include representations and " other dealings " which extend back in time to when the debtor or hirer reads an advertisement inserted by the negotiator . |
| 9 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 10 | insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses . |
| 11 | But I think er with a big family like mother had got , she used to like her divi day erm for erm you know , well say save up , well it used to come round about May and you 'd think well just , you know just in time for the summer shoes or something you know . |
| 12 | Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike 's not here otherwise I 'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough . |
| 13 | ‘ Put me down , you lecherous old goat ! ’ she said with a laugh , and , pushing him away , she straightend up in time to see That Man emerge from Jim 's old office with Ben Bradshaw , the senior registrar . |
| 14 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 15 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 16 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 17 | This is a simply stunning hotel where you step back in time . |
| 18 | Step into the Hotel Monna Lisa and you step back in time . |
| 19 | Fortunately she retired just in time ; and saw his dark eyes , which had been so sympathetic , gleam for a second behind his little round glasses with amusement , with a kind of mockery , as she so promptly retreated . |
| 20 | It 's a good thing we got here in time , he thought . |
| 21 | Anyway we got , we got there in time |
| 22 | It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go . |
| 23 | Thanks to the intervention and wise counsel of an Edinburgh specialist in prints , we learnt just in time that we had a very valuable collection which should be sold complete . |
| 24 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 25 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 26 | We escaped just in time and it was downhill all the way to Narvik . |
| 27 | You do n't give a damn about whether we get back in time for the meeting . ’ |
| 28 | Must make sure we get home in time to watch it . ’ |
| 29 | As we droned back in time from one lost place to another , I fondly remembered what had previously seemed by bad travel stories . |
| 30 | Note that to add we move forward in time or clockwise around the numbers . |