Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rescued just in time , after one of them , an elderly woman , managed to raise the alarm . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
| 3 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 4 | They were handed in on time , handed in on time . |
| 5 | These and their white peers were taken on in times of expansion . |
| 6 | Unfortunately for Charles , they were warned just in time , and escaped . |
| 7 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
| 8 | They were sent down on time I think were n't they ? |
| 9 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 10 | The book was completed just in time for him to dedicate it to King Charles II at the Restoration . |
| 11 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 12 | The mug is advertised in The Guardian , although the ad was turned down by Time Out listings magazine . |
| 13 | The second call to the fire-brigade was made just in time to stop them setting out , the farm-boy reported on returning . |
| 14 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |
| 15 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 16 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 17 | ‘ I was swept out of time . ’ |
| 18 | He was seated just in time to see Caballeros , now in his most swashbuckling mood , plant a superb iron shot on the platform green and hole the putt . |