Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] just 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 turned just in time to see the storm-door across the landing shutting gently .
3 I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down .
4 The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 We escaped just in time and it was downhill all the way to Narvik .
11 He stopped just in time , teetering on the edge .
12 He turned just in time to see the coffin sink below the surface of the waves .
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