Example sentences of "[adv] just as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 4 | Her eyes flew open just as his lips found the delicate curve of her neck . |
| 5 | erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money . |
| 6 | they always come just just as I 'm getting on and getting well luckily enough I got me me lounge done first thing this morning . |
| 7 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 10 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 11 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 12 | Sometimes she came home just as I was due to leave , or vice versa . |
| 13 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 16 | It seemed to be RAF policy to shift people around from time to time , usually just as they were beginning to take root somewhere . |
| 17 | And I think what we 're trying to do is to see that we 're being treated fairly just as we might listen to that person 's argument as well . |
| 18 | The terminals worked on a line by line basis , with the screen information scrolling upwards just as it would on a teleprinter roll . |
| 19 | They have to promote themselves now just as they 've got to get bums on seats as they say . |
| 20 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Plomer shows a fine ear for the dramatic exchanges of his story : his half-rhymes are as just as his formal pieces — songs , homilies and ballads . |
| 22 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 23 | ‘ Things here just as you found them , sir ? ’ |
| 24 | You will see flour being milled here just as it was in Captain Cook 's day . |
| 25 | Hunter dislocated his shoulder after only 39 minutes of the Lions opening tour match against North Auckland , and returns home tomorrow just as his replacement flies out . |
| 26 | So we 'd get one third and then just as we were going to eat it three other people came in . |
| 27 | And then just as they 're on The Chair , they suddenly accelerate violently , to pop over it . |
| 28 | And then just as I left the stage , sobbing , I heard somebody say , ‘ Well , I do n't admire her dress-sense . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The answer to the first question determines how the second should be answered , he argues , for if a recognised morality is crucial to the continued existence of society ( and this is clearly what he is arguing ) , then just as it would use the law to safeguard any other essential part of its structure , so ‘ society has a prima facie right to legislate against immorality as such ’ . |