Example sentences of "just in [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bookchin responded , just in order to rescue the new environmental consciousness from itself , with the notion of Social Ecology , aiming at advancing ‘ a serious challenge to society with its vast , hierarchical , sexist , class-ruled , status appa-ratus and militaristic history ’ . |
| 2 | Five years later , another nuclear supremo , Sir John Hill , chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) , claimed that the nuclear industry had ‘ come just in time to save the world 's industrial society from a devastating energy shortage ’ . |
| 3 | As they squabble , the estimated time of arrival for the first train has shifted from next summer to the autumn , just in time to miss the holiday rush and about £200m revenue . |
| 4 | We were just in time to watch the evening rush hour . |
| 5 | Just in time to celebrate the onrush of spring , the Vanderwoude-Tannenbaum gallery has mounted ‘ A Bird 's Eye View : One Man 's Vision ’ a tribute to Mr James in the form of a tree full of birdhouses he made ( until 6 June ) . |
| 6 | As the scream rent the room the door was thrust open and Sister Monica and Sister Aloysius rushed in , just in time to stop the nun 's hands going round Millie 's throat . |
| 7 | He discovered the theatre score in the Academy 's own library , just in time to stop the presses and make a new edition based on it . |
| 8 | ‘ You have arrived just in time to witness the final stage of the experiment . |
| 9 | To their dismay , they arrived at the departure platform just in time to see the express pulling out . |
| 10 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 11 | She collected her bag and hand in hand they ran all the way — just in time to see the bus disappearing along the road . |
| 12 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
| 13 | He turned just in time to see the coffin sink below the surface of the waves . |
| 14 | Hurrying to the window , he peered through a tear in the curtains just in time to see the Peugeot drive off , heading towards the city . |
| 15 | He followed the sound and was just in time to see the gunman climbing a wire fence at the end of an adjoining alleyway . |
| 16 | In the first room he looked into , the window space had already been commandeered by two native pensioners and an indigo planter ; in the next room he was just in time to see the camel guns fired … the sofa recoiled on its protesting castors and the men serving the guns set to work to re-load . |
| 17 | Collins ushered Patrick and Jane back out onto the street — just in time to see the car come chuffing around the corner . |
| 18 | Mr. S. returned just in time to see the respondent carrying the goods towards the door . |
| 19 | The second time , travelling fast to find them , he 'd passed a junction just in time to see the VW rounding a bend on the other road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Gus Hambro wheeled about with unexpectedly authoritative aplomb , just in time to see the well-groomed young head duck out of sight . |
| 22 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 23 | I turned just in time to see the storm-door across the landing shutting gently . |
| 24 | His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house . |
| 25 | Stuart turned to speak and was just in time to see the man snatch the plastic bin from the young assistant and run back towards the door . |
| 26 | I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway . |
| 27 | Just in time to preserve the high quality of sport and curtail poaching and illegal fishing . |
| 28 | Roy Lacey returns from holiday just in time to foil the advance of an army of weeds on his hour-a-week garden larder . |
| 29 | That troubadour who passes by just in time to rescue the girl from a hedgerow scuffle ; the sudden but convenient Dickensian benefactors ; the neat shipwreck on a foreign shore which reunites siblings and lovers . |
| 30 | Guiltily realizing that she had n't finished yet , Jezrael leaped just in time to rewind the cuber . |