Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You got in just in time . |
| 2 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 3 | Britain woke up just in time . |
| 4 | The 2nd edition of Cobol for Students by A. Parkin came out just in time for a course which started in January . |
| 5 | Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also — Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell . |
| 6 | He paid up just in time . |
| 7 | He arrived back just in time to avoid an overdue thunderstorm . |
| 8 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As he reached the cabin , the door swung open just in time . |
| 11 | Henry marvelled once again at time . |
| 12 | The funeral was private , family only ; Andy got back just in time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the kitchen , preparing to bring in the meat and vegetables , her mother almost sniped at her , but pulled up just in time . |
| 16 | He looked down just in time to see Liawski 's diaries disappearing over the edge . |
| 17 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 18 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |
| 19 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Author has taken this one crash and delved deeply back in time to reveal the stories of 25 pilots that are known to have flown this particular Spitfire . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Victoria hastily wrote down an address , and ran off just in time to catch the bus coming down the hill . |
| 25 | Seventy or eighty men were at the kill and most of them , like us , had heard the shooting from their homes and hurried over just in time . |