Example sentences of "[prep] him just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel started to run towards him just as another block of stone came away from the wall , hurtling downwards . |
| 2 | I was happy with him just as he was , without affectation . |
| 3 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |
| 4 | It exploded inside him just as the last notes of his symphony died away . |
| 5 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 6 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 7 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |