Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] in time " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You got in just in time . |
| 2 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 3 | Glasnost had come only just in time to prevent all the interesting , intelligent spirits from vanishing . |
| 4 | The condition can last for months , but it goes away completely in time . |
| 5 | Britain woke up just in time . |
| 6 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 7 | The 2nd edition of Cobol for Students by A. Parkin came out just in time for a course which started in January . |
| 8 | He paid up just in time . |
| 9 | Then he added , with a sudden burst of frankness , ‘ I reckoned the news would seep out anyway in time and cause them to lose plenty of sleep . ’ |
| 10 | He arrived back just in time to avoid an overdue thunderstorm . |
| 11 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 12 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Peter McEnery and Dorothy Tutin ( above ) play the middle-aged ex-lovers who iron out the wrinkles and get together just in time for the final curtain . |
| 15 | As he reached the cabin , the door swung open just in time . |
| 16 | The funeral was private , family only ; Andy got back just in time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the kitchen , preparing to bring in the meat and vegetables , her mother almost sniped at her , but pulled up just in time . |
| 20 | They were pulled back just in time . |
| 21 | He looked down just in time to see Liawski 's diaries disappearing over the edge . |
| 22 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 23 | She had taken pains to arrive only just in time . |
| 24 | They seemed not to be , but it was difficult to be sure that they had not simply managed to turn away again in time . |
| 25 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
| 26 | Others looked back further in time , perhaps to the late-Victorian era , with the long-term failure to invest , to engage in industrial or technical training , to develop new industries , or perhaps to create an industrial or business-minded culture at all . |
| 27 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 28 | The two men who came in were old friends of hers , rich American connoisseurs who had made their home in Paris before the war and left only just in time . |
| 29 | But they too settle down again in time . |
| 30 | Victoria hastily wrote down an address , and ran off just in time to catch the bus coming down the hill . |