Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well indigestion , it was terrible pains down my chest just as though you 'd swallowed glass and every now and again it would sort of stab at you . |
| 2 | George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his . |
| 3 | Then ‘ I 've got you under my skin just as you 're getting me outta your system ’ . |
| 4 | Well last time I was in er Dublin I er went from the pub straight to the airport and someone stuck a bottle of whiskey in my pocket just as I was going through customs , I did n't believe it could happen but it happened in Ireland . |
| 5 | ‘ Shit , ’ I said to myself , and put my hand under my chin just as Paul , after a quick glance in my direction , started to attack the nose of the bomb . |
| 6 | ‘ Just the one ? ’ he asked easily , taking up her case just as she reached for it . |
| 7 | The female eider duck is abandoned by her drake just as soon as she starts incubating the eggs . |
| 8 | Talking of which , ’ she glanced at her watch just as the phone rang , ‘ I should n't be here . ’ |
| 9 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 10 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 11 | ‘ Grimwood reports Newman did arrive and spoilt their act just as they 'd got Lennox to agree to sign . |
| 12 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 13 | Flavia longed to go back and slip into her place just as the soup was brought and hear them telling about Loulou 's day . |
| 14 | We generally got to their place just as they were finishing breakfast . |
| 15 | The girl yawned and rubbed the back of her head just as the wind of Jezrael 's exit ruffled the yellow curls . |
| 16 | The wicked sisters of this now nightmarish fairy-tale can feel no pity nor respect for their father just as he can muster no sense of true love . |
| 17 | He 'd probably be on his way across the Channel now and waiting outside her flat just as she got home from work . |
| 18 | All the stars in the galaxy are slowly moving around its centre just as the planets move around the Sun , taking some 200 million years — a ‘ galactic year ’ — to make a full circuit . |
| 19 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |
| 20 | And she fished a small parcel from her pocket , and showed Sally-Anne her treasure just as the horse bus finally groaned up — or neighed up , thought Sally-Anne irreverently . |
| 21 | She found another bathroom , which was important , because the champagne was acting on her stomach just as she 'd been afraid it would . |
| 22 | More , he is to equip them for their mission just as he had equipped Jesus for his . |
| 23 | By a remarkable coincidence of timing , a train sounded its horn just as Theseus ( Act IV Scene I ) proclaimed ‘ go bid the huntsmen awake them with their horns ’ ! |
| 24 | In its position just as yesterday . |
| 25 | That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him . |
| 26 | Bob Calder grinned and put a steadying hand on her arm just as Nicolo reached them . |
| 27 | He remained there for what must have been an anxious day and a night while the elephant returned to and from a nearby stream with trunkfuls of water with which it was finally able to loosen the roots of the tree , push it over , then trample its victim just as his belated rescue-party arrived on the scene . |
| 28 | Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood . |
| 29 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 30 | One typical Whig satire of 1710 had Louis XIV thanking the Tories for coming to his rescue just as he was losing the war , saying " your very Principles are agreeable to absolute Monarchy , and Designs of Tyranny ; and your Practices are … such as have often reliev 'd and supported me " . |