Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | With strength born of desperation , Craig heaved himself up and pushed his way through the broken window just as the door burst open below him . |
| 2 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 3 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 4 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 5 | Pulling on the reins with one hand and pushing the big horse with the other , she backed him straight into the drunken lout just as he flung the cloak aside . |
| 6 | Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed . |
| 7 | She shrank into the furthest corner just as the door was pushed open , thankful that Jack had not yet seen fit to light the sconces against the shadows of late afternoon . |
| 8 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 9 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 10 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 11 | The EC1 Pattern Controller has two pattern width dials , one for the left and one for the right of the pattern , so with this equipment you can of course use the right of the mylar sheet just as you use the left . |
| 12 | Only the pre-lunch session was possible on the second day , drizzle intensifying to heavy rain which even penetrated the Press-box roof just as Cornhill Insurance were announcing their two-year extension of sponsorship . |
| 13 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 14 | There are disagreements between councillors of the same party just as there are disagreements between those of opposing parties . |
| 15 | For example , John Hull argues that " there is a theology appropriate to the concrete thinker just as there is one available to the abstract thinker " ( Hull 1991 : 13 ) . |
| 16 | Since then , he has travelled some of football 's more pot-holed highways , including short spells at non-League Fisher Athletic and in the Middle East just as the Gulf War began . |
| 17 | We should be looking at ways of being more selective about treatment , and I think one of the reasons for wishing to study miocenia gravis in such detail is to be able to get so inside the mechanism of production of the disease that we can in fact simply turn off the miocenia disease process and leave the rest of the immune system just as it was . |
| 18 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 19 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 20 | Getting to her feet , Mrs McMahon gave Ellie a warm hug just as Feargal walked in . |
| 21 | Or a great space hulk might be reported drifting in the void or in the warp , harbouring suspected pirates or , worse , those fierce cunning invasive Genestealers which could infest a human world just as termites infest a house — so that it seems to remain firm timber until it crumbles apart . |
| 22 | The Adjutant even permitted himself a rueful grin just as the office door itself opened and the CO strode in . |
| 23 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 24 | He gave a short laugh just as she rang off . |
| 25 | He gave her a cool smile just as the car gave a throaty growl and leaped forward . |
| 26 | A taxi driver driving behind the bus said : ‘ I heard a big explosion just as the tourist bus was passing . |
| 27 | The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph . |
| 28 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 29 | At other times it is suddenly exciting , as a new discovery is made or a sensitive teacher initiates a new game just as the last activity begins to pall . |