Example sentences of "it was touch and go [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune .
2 Again it was touch and go whether Dustin would be fired before the first night .
3 Right up until the four men left the cellar it was touch and go whether they would attack us .
4 By the time we reached Llanberis it was touch and go whether we would make it back to base at all that night .
5 It was touch and go whether I was going to rejoin her world ever again or … or cop out . ’
6 At that point Banana manager Keith Lambert instructed Luckwell to drop back and help with the chase and it was touch and go as the next group brought the gap down to three minutes on the finishing circuit at Rotherham .
7 It was touch and go when the peregrine falcon was brought into the Clockhouse veterinary hospital in Stroud , whether the bird would survive .
8 We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland .
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