Example sentences of "just as [pron] [be] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the old women manage a slow Bue-nas , just as they 're passing you . |
| 2 | Just as they were leaving she did at last catch sight of some friends from school . |
| 3 | Just as we were leaving he turned up in the hallway . |
| 4 | Then ‘ I 've got you under my skin just as you 're getting me outta your system ’ . |
| 5 | Approach it one step at a time — just as you are reducing your weight and inches . |
| 6 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 7 | In other words , if Dr Akhtar has his way , it would become unlawful to vilify a person 's religion , just as it is to humiliate him because of the colour of his skin . |
| 8 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 9 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 10 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 11 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 12 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 13 | MARK Chapman was the nerd from hell who shot John Lennon just as he was entering his musical renaissance , born out of contentment at being just another drug-free millionaire house-husband . |
| 14 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 15 | And it was his precision bowling that accounted for Gooch just as he was finding his touch . |
| 16 | Maria flung Luke Scott a hostile look as he and Cavell Fielding appeared just as she was taking her leave of Giles and Ursula Estwick , with Florian and Nicky on either side of her . |
| 17 | Then , just as she was thinking she had better sound battle stations because he did n't look best pleased by what he saw , he suggested affably , ‘ Come on in , take a seat , ’ and indicated a chair at the other side of his desk . |
| 18 | But now had she not , just as she was telling herself that she commanded the game , in fact lost her freedom ? |
| 19 | So she was surprised when , on the following Saturday , just as she was doing her chores , Fen turned up . |
| 20 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |