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

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1 ‘ A lot of players , including Gazza , found the game passed them by at times .
2 He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time .
3 I found her just in time .
4 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 .
5 Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time .
6 Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England .
7 I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years .
8 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 .
9 They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’
10 Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins .
11 I think the next person in the house to leave their pit made it just in time for ‘ Playschool ’ .
12 He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again .
13 They got it just in time .
14 He did it just in time .
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