Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds of movement behind me suggested she was just in time . |
| 2 | The glider dived almost vertically and I was just in time to pull back on the stick so that we hit the ground in a level attitude without any damage . |
| 3 | On August 6 … he reported to an officer in London and was told that he was just in time to catch the 3.06 p.m. train to Bletchley where he would be met by someone . |
| 4 | ‘ You can tell your squeamish friend he was just in time with his tripod . |
| 5 | Mr Knightley had arrived home in grand — if not entirely dignified — style , and luckily he was just in time to decide whether or not the quarry project should go ahead . |
| 6 | Nutty , last to disappear , was just in time to hear the visitor say , ‘ Why , how brown he is ! |
| 7 | In a few quick strides I was back at the bend , and was just in time to see a movement in the bushes on the lower side of the track . |
| 8 | She was just in time to catch the overnight Red Eye for Heathrow . |
| 9 | Turning , Meredith was just in time to glimpse a man standing by one of the loose-boxes . |
| 10 | He followed the sound and was just in time to see the gunman climbing a wire fence at the end of an adjoining alleyway . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our arrival was just in time to take off again , so that I had no opportunity for a rest , a meal or anything else . |
| 13 | I rushed out again and was just in time to catch the afternoon coach . |
| 14 | I was just in time to glimpse a pale shape at the far end of the house move up the steps and under the colonnade . |
| 15 | I withdrew to my cabin , to find that I was just in time for a repeat episode of Garry Garrison , Para-space Pilot . |
| 16 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 17 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 18 | Rincewind reached the Broken Drum at a dead run , and was just in time to collide with a man who came out backwards , fast . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was just in time to hear the street door slam , two floors below . |
| 22 | I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway . |
| 23 | It was just in time too as both boats were drifting slowly |
| 24 | She was just in time for the tail end of the early evening news , and her attention was immediately caught . |
| 25 | I was just in time for Sunday night , bath , hair wash and all the usual things |
| 26 | And I was still in time for my 13.15 departure to Sunderland across the footbridge . |
| 27 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 28 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |
| 29 | ‘ No , ’ she denied with a wry little smile , ‘ the ferry was perfectly on time ; it was your wretched Dublin streets that were the problem ! |
| 30 | Bobbie was back in time for tea . |