Example sentences of "just have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 2 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |
| 3 | Soon afterwards , on Good Friday , Walter was seized by a fever ; his house was invaded by impure demons ; he just had time to struggle to Sault and make his confession ; and at dawn on Easter Sunday ‘ he withdrew from his body ’ . |
| 4 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 5 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 6 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 7 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 8 | We just had time to eat a beautiful breakfast and read the complimentary morning papers before we touched down at London . |
| 9 | " I just had time to think " Thank God it was n't my teeth " . " |
| 10 | I think that we actually just had time to talk through these and you did n't actually make notes . |
| 11 | She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation . |
| 12 | She just had time to make out a black profile against the window before a shoe slammed into her chest with the sound a beanbag makes when it hits the floor . |
| 13 | He just had time to say , ‘ Marek , you do n't know what you 're doing . ’ |
| 14 | I just had time to dive into the nearest ditch , dropping the bicycle on the road , before I heard another shower of bullets . |
| 15 | But it was too slow , or too stupid : I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away . |
| 16 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 17 | and just had time to visit the cathedral |
| 18 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 19 | Zen just had time to cross to the phone booth , dial the police emergency number and give the message he had prepared before boarding the bus as the doors were closing . |
| 20 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 21 | ‘ Come along , Anabelle , we just have time for a bite to eat before the meeting . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You just have time before we go to write that letter . ’ |