Example sentences of "just as it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 2 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 3 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 4 | Flamers sprayed at the fracas ; and at last rebels could be distinguished from loyalists , just as it became obvious that the new arrivals on the scene — pink salamanders — were also loyalists . |
| 5 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 6 | ‘ Just as it invaded this mutton ? ’ |