She reached the Priory just in time to encounter Robin coming out of the gates.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

Before night the Blenny hove in sight, and taking the boats on board and the junk in tow, the expedition returned to Hong Kong, where they found the frigate at anchor.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

Again I found myself engaged in deadly conflict with him, and waked just in time to escape receiving the death-blow at his hands.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

Between the spot on the highway where Chris met him and his arrival at home, the youth enjoyed half a lifetime of glorious hopes and ambitions; but a cloud indeed shadowed all this overwhelming joy in that the event responsible for his change of fortune was itself sad.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

Without an instant’s hesitation, Natalie darted back to her own door, just in time to escape Richard Turlington descending the cabin stairs.
— from Miss or Mrs.? by Wilkie Collins

The Buffs, bitterly disappointed at having lost their chance of joining in the Tirah expedition, remained at Malakand in garrison.
— from The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

She flitted down the stairs with her lightness of movement that gave her the effect of a half-flight, caught Damaris to her and kissed her soundly, and set her down just in time to escape rebuke for her demonstrativeness from Dame Eliza, who returned with her face reddened, and Oceanus kicking under one arm, hung like a sack below it, and screaming with baffled rage and the desire of adventure.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

He remembered, just in time, to express regret at Miss Simpson's bereavement.
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Colonel Urgo cut a neat arc, hit the road on his back and rolled over just in time to escape receiving amidships his suitcase, which the Indian driver had dropped from the car without turning his head.
— from Dust of the Desert by Robert Welles Ritchie