| Caddick's arrival was in the nick of time, for the rest of England's attack was as blunt as a bargepole. |
| He ran with the ball and slid in front of the base feet first to tag out the hustling Izturis in the nick of time. |
| I managed to slam on the brakes in the nick of time to avoid getting into an accident, tyres screeching and all. |
| My intervention came in the nick of time, and tested the very limits of his fistfight brinkmanship. |
| Conveniently, there were other people around, and I was rescued in the nick of time. |
| The film, a black-and-white comedy about a rock band going AWOL in northern Ontario, was finished just in the nick of time. |
