Example sentences of "just as it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 2 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 3 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 4 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 5 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 6 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 7 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 8 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 9 | As for expanding in Europe , the board accepts that the Halifax must diversify abroad , just as it diversified geographically within Britain earlier in its history . |