Example sentences of "the [noun sg] just as " in BNC.
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1 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
2 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
3 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
4 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
5 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |
6 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
7 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
8 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
9 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
10 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
11 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
12 | In insisting on the fact that science starts with problems , then , is it not the case that , for the falsificationist just as for the naive inductivist , science starts from observation ? |
13 | We can be locked into the ritual just as we become locked into a dance sequence once we have entered upon it . |
14 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
15 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
16 | But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D . |
17 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |
18 | Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint . |
19 | The last of the cuirassiers were driven from the village just as darkness fell , leaving a thousand corpses and a heap of rubble to the French as the fruits of victory . |
20 | She arrived back at the village just as night was turning into day . |
21 | The specimen was taken from the eastern side of the sandbar just as the tide began to ebb and came the day after Kevin had taken a 2 lb 8 oz flounder from the same spot . |
22 | But Derek and I both made mistakes at first ; simple things really , such as accidentally standing on the creance just as the bird came across , so that the poor thing got dumped . |
23 | Boyden and Handy arrived on the scene just as this was beginning to happen . |
24 | He asked the question just as Karen had asked it of him when he 'd opened the door . |
25 | Basically Tests are to be done as worksheets in the classroom just as any other worksheet and would be done , to see if a child has understood the work taught . |
26 | An individual will go through the process just as we have outlined it already . |
27 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
28 | Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks . |
29 | Paul Lane came into the room just as he had finished telephoning Laetitia . |
30 | Marc had finished his rearrangement of the videos and moved across the room just as she herself moved forward . |