Example sentences of "came just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came just three weeks before the students were due to sit their examinations . |
| 2 | Not that we came just to see you . |
| 3 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 4 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 5 | The decision came just eight hours before the deadline imposed by the British Olympic Association ( BOA ) for cities to be considered as the British nomination . |
| 6 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 7 | The Gutenberg Galaxy was the invention of the printing press which came just in time for the Reformation . |
| 8 | Christmas came just three months after Shanti joined the family . |
| 9 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 10 | Gatting , now 35 , vehemently denied the allegation , but lost his captaincy over the incident , which came just months after his much-publicised row with a Pakistani umpire . |
| 11 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 12 | His one chance came just before half-time when a defender 's shins blocked his shot . |
| 13 | Pearce played down the incident , which came just after Gary Mabbutt 's winner in Spurs ' 2-1 triumph , saying : ‘ It was nothing . ’ |
| 14 | It has been suggested that Jesus rode into Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of Dedication , which came just before the Passover . |
| 15 | Last night 's developments came just 24 hours after TODAY revealed how Diana had agreed a secret pact with Charles to bury the hatchet for the sake of appearances . |
| 16 | It came just when we thought the powerful combination of Horan and Jason Little had produced the try of the day , the latter making a typically powerful break to send Horan gliding between the posts with the Baa-Baas defence dismantled . |
| 17 | The incident came just five days after a pitch invasion by Manchester City fans during their side 's 4–2 FA Cup defeat at home to Tottenham , which was screened live on television . |
| 18 | The scathing attack came just two years after Sir Claus had caused a storm by warning our crumbling schools were in danger of turning out the dunces of Europe . |
| 19 | Rush 's club landmark came just a week after he had reached a scoring milestone for his country . |
| 20 | News of the windfall came just after the couple chalked up 40 years of marriage . |
| 21 | ‘ The ground was very fast at York which he does n't like and the rain came just in time for us on Saturday . |
| 22 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 23 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 24 | The knock on the door came just after he had put out the light . |
| 25 | The row came just as talks were starting on the environmental and labour safeguards that the Clinton administration wants before asking Congress to ratify the North American Free-Trade Agreement involving the United States , Mexico and Canada . |
| 26 | The cause for celebration was the Clinton administration 's decision to recognise Angola 's government , which came just 48 hours before the talks had broken down . |
| 27 | The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate . |
| 28 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 29 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 30 | The police came just before lunch on the following Wednesday . |