Example sentences of "[adv] just as he " in BNC.
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| 1 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 2 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 3 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 4 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 6 | We knew Souness would want his own set of players and that he 'd shift people in and out very quickly just as he had in Scotland . |
| 7 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 8 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 9 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 10 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
| 11 | Ca n't have a character like Blackbeard popping in and out just as he likes . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been putting it out just as he 's walked in , I said I 'm getting good me at this tea . |
| 13 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 14 | I slunk through the dealing room to Patterson 's office and got there just as he did . |
| 15 | Julia came round just as he was erecting a kind of tent over her bed . |