Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 2 | Could the events have occurred just as they are described ? |
| 3 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 4 | But strikers are there to get kicked just as defenders are there to kick them . |
| 5 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 6 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 7 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 8 | The alert last night had sounded just as Londoners were beginning to think that just for once there would be no air raid , and the first bombs fell as the last notes of the sirens gave way to an uneasy , brooding silence . |
| 9 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 10 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |