Example sentences of "just as i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 3 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 4 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 5 | ‘ New York called just as I was leaving . |
| 6 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |
| 7 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 8 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |
| 9 | It was as if he was dropping a hint or letting slip a little clue thinking that one day someone would read his diaries just as I was doing . ’ |
| 10 | Just as I was about to get in , the man spoke again . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 12 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 13 | Just as I was about to say it again , the Canadian spoke . |
| 14 | And now , just as I was giving up all hope … |
| 15 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
| 16 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 17 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 18 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 19 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 20 | My Treatise on the Novel , with a long essay on Ivy 's novels , appeared just as I was leaving England , and she wrote her gratitude to me in Egypt . |
| 21 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 22 | Just as I was thanking Mrs Lewis and getting ready to leave Albert came into the room . |
| 23 | ‘ I passed one just as I was coming out of Blakemere . ’ |
| 24 | Just as I was leaving the studio , I was summoned back . |
| 25 | There was no reply , but just as I was turning away I swear I heard Dawn sneeze . |
| 26 | And he said , today he phoned me just as I was going out and I did n't really sort of stop and talk to him very long . |
| 27 | Just as I was starting to get some real braking action , an ominous dark line appeared across the runway which , from 50 to 60 metres , turned into an overgrown drainage dyke about seven feet wide by five or six feet deep . |
| 28 | just as I was ready to leave for England I met John Leinster . " |
| 29 | You see , what I did n't know , is that she was feeling terribly nervous as well , just as I was . |
| 30 | " Just as I was getting into it , too . |