Example sentences of "nick [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 2 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 3 | ABOVE : Ben Weaver hooked this 19 lb 2 oz specimen in the nick of time — a few moments later gale force winds made fishing impossible . |
| 4 | The final sequence is a familiar bad dream as the family dash in the house and upstairs in the nick of time , only to find they have n't shut the door behind them … |
| 5 | In the nick of time : according to one recent report 80 out of 92 league clubs are technically insolvent . |
| 6 | Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken . |
| 7 | But all was well in the nick of time . |
| 8 | Arlington Mill is one of those mills that was pulled back from the brink of destruction in the nick of time . |
| 9 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 10 | In the nick of time , they discovered her in a state of hapless stage fright . |
| 11 | In so doing he also rediscovers Pip , whom he lures to a disused lime-kiln with the intention of killing him , but in the nick of time is frustrated by Herbert , Startop , and Trabb 's boy . |
| 12 | Possibly in the nick of time , Israel began to export an appetite killer , consisting of pulverised algae . |
| 13 | Clive also attended , visibly gleeful that he had spared the school any undesirable publicity by unloading me in the nick of time . |
| 14 | In the nick of time he saw the yellow triangular patch on the shoulder . |
| 15 | ‘ Like the U.S. cavalry , just in the nick of time , ’ he said . |
| 16 | If you do n't hear the milk boiling over , you wo n't dash to the rescue in the nick of time . |
| 17 | More importantly , the ending escapes the cliché in countless films of a marriage being halted in the nick of time although it most resembles the climax of a 1928 Harold Lloyd comedy , Speedy . |
| 18 | He wrapped his mackintosh carefully round the small sketch-pad and fled down the pathway to the church , arriving in the nick of time , for as he closed the heavy arched door behind him , a slow drizzle of rain swept across the village and surrounding fields . |
| 19 | Even when the change had been made , in the nick of time , the questions remained in Emerson 's mind : would the engine work ? |
| 20 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 21 | As Gandalf points out , all Sauron and Saruman and the orcs have done between them is ‘ bring Pippin and Merry with marvellous speed , and in the nick of time , to Fangorn , where otherwise they would never have come at all ! ’ — and so , one might say , though it is beyond Gandalf 's knowledge at the time , to rouse the Ents , overthrow Saruman , save Rohan , and free Théoden to make his decisive intervention at Minas Tirith . |
| 22 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 23 | One Candy owner , Eleanor Bellamy , has already died , and others have escaped from their smoke-filled homes just in the nick of time . |
| 24 | Saxe-Weimar had arrived at the very nick of time . |
| 25 | When Iago outlines his plan to regain Othello 's respect through the intervention of Desdemona , Cassio is grateful : The point that this sequence establishes is that Cassio , like Roderigo before him , and like Othello , and Desdemona after him , trusts Iago and believes that he has appeared in the nick of time , solely in order to help him . |
| 26 | Enter Taligent with its promised solution for rapid applications prototyping and customization in a hardware-independent environment just in the nick of time . |
| 27 | He advanced to the Seine , slipped across it at Poissy and , with Philip 's army hard on his heels , he crossed the Somme at Blanche-Taque by a ford which was revealed to the king in the nick of time , possibly by a prisoner to whom Edward offered enough money to buy the vital information . |
| 28 | A train — which , as Peter said , the law-abiding might wait ten minutes for — arrived and bore the boy away in the nick of time . |
| 29 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
| 30 | ‘ The nobles , clergy and soldiers united with the people in the nick of time and calmed the disorders . ’ |