Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 2 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Actually , you arrived just as I was about to invite Leith to Parkwood . |
| 4 | ‘ And do n't they have rooms enough to house an army ? ’ she demanded just as though he was about to deny it . |
| 5 | Frankie Howerd : April 19 , aged 71 : ‘ Titter Ye Not ’ master of sexual innuendo and star of Up Pompeii , who died just as he was enjoying a big comeback . |
| 6 | Once or twice she met Carrie 's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did . |
| 7 | Such was Johnson 's dominance that Jack London wrote : ‘ Plucky , but absolutely helpless , the white man seemed to be a victim of a playful Ethiopian who did just as he would ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.29 ) . |
| 8 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 9 | When she moved she waddled just as the captain had illustrated . |
| 10 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 11 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 12 | We arrived just as the first eggs were hatching . |
| 13 | The timing seemed fortuitous , for they expanded just as demand was booming in the Middle East . |
| 14 | They answered just as Jesus had told them and the men let them go . |
| 15 | He limped just as Adam remembered . |
| 16 | There was one small question nagging him which he asked just as Samantha Lightbody was ringing off . |
| 17 | It exploded just as Mr Major called in 20 more Tory rebels in another desperate bid to save the Maastricht Bill , and lift the question mark still hanging over his own political future . |
| 18 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 19 | It came just as some bread with holes was unwrapped in our house . |
| 20 | I will give you a quick tour from the air , ’ he added just as she opened her mouth to give him a caustic reply . |
| 21 | He turned just as the kettle began to boil , and , the tea forgotten , he strode from the kitchen and out of the flat . |
| 22 | They also want to speak to an elderly man who was wearing a brown jacket and was refused entry to the bank because he arrived just as the robber had left . |
| 23 | was appointed as head of the branch in 1988 and he arrived just as Phase II of the works project was about to start . |
| 24 | Obliquely the Shah had agreed to let them start some planning ; it began just as he left for Egypt . |
| 25 | He finished just as Eddie arrived . |
| 26 | He read the leading articles in less than five minutes , noticed the news of a friend 's death , and then settled down to solve a crossword puzzle in the Daily Telegraph , which he finished just as we steamed into Baker Street . |
| 27 | A final glance at the cavity bed reassured her that it looked just as it should . |
| 28 | He fell just as he lies now . |
| 29 | He spoke just as the door opened . |
| 30 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |