Example sentences of "[adv] in time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part this was a reflection of the great strain on small financial resources which building , maintaining and perhaps in time enlarging workhouses imposed , but it also reflected the greater difficulty in an effective and controlled administration of out-relief in the more anonymous and densely populated towns . |
| 2 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 3 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 4 | Only in time did this portrait of an angst-ridden , emotionally harried man prove tellingly accurate . |
| 5 | For his pains he was christened ‘ H-Bomb Harold ’ and ridiculed by the popular press when he reached Tokyo only in time to find that the test had already been held . |
| 6 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 7 | ‘ Midge is bringing Angela down in time to see me tee off . ’ |
| 8 | Blackburn Rovers ’ Lenny Johnrose has joined the club but is not in time to make his debut against Chester at Macclesfield today . |
| 9 | I hoped they were not to be disappointed by the rest of their tour and wondered whether that residue of egalitarianism which their culture had instilled in them , for all its dreadfulness , might not in time lead them to question whether unification was wholly to their advantage . |
| 10 | I shoved forward , but not in time to avoid hitting him . |
| 11 | Some present-day achievements are motivated by the hurt of being ignored in the past ; they can represent an attempt to go backwards in time to recover early special relationships in the family . |
| 12 | Moving from the present backwards in time implies that one can , with patience , go back into a patient 's past medical history correcting successive imbalances — rather like peeling an onion layer by layer — until the original , deeply submerged imbalance is uncovered and corrected . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Lily meanwhile works for the Mob , placing bets to shorten the odds at racetracks ; when she impulsively decides to re-enter her son 's life , after an absence of eight years , just in time to save it . |
| 15 | And then , just in time to save her skin , the bow of her shop dress defiantly askew , here is the tomboyish , the naughty Cynthia Dainty , alias Lily Greene . |
| 16 | But the plan failed when Mrs Jones awoke just in time to save her life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got rid of almost all the ideas associated with romantic love just in time to settle down with someone I like and respect . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Wes is back from the Wild Boars , just in time to say goodbye . |
| 21 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 22 | He announced he was going just in time to overshadow reports of Mr Major 's humiliation on the evening TV news bulletins . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're just in time to give me a hand . ’ |
| 25 | She slowly regained her strength in the latter part of the year , just in time to cope with a winter season and no designer . |
| 26 | We were just in time to watch the evening rush hour . |
| 27 | The Essex team had reason to be grateful to the weather when a down-pour at the Southend Spring Festival ( 16 May ) brought crowds into the covered area just in time to watch them perform . |
| 28 | Turning , Meredith was just in time to glimpse a man standing by one of the loose-boxes . |
| 29 | She started to turn , just in time to glimpse and duck beneath the hairy forearm that was sweeping towards the side of her head . |
| 30 | 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 . |