Example sentences of "[verb] just [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 2 | But that afternoon , something made her hesitate just before she stepped out from behind the curtain . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 4 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 5 | She heard him returning just as she sat back to admire her handiwork . |
| 6 | For when the Pisan detention-camp in 1946 compelled the poet to breach , though guardedly , the barrier of his reticence , he certainly wrote about the women he had loved ; and if Dorothy is of that company ( as she must be , surely ) , we need to know just where she figures , and on what terms . |
| 7 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 8 | I will give you a quick tour from the air , ’ he added just as she opened her mouth to give him a caustic reply . |
| 9 | Dana thought everyone should do just as she wanted , and why not ? |
| 10 | Some of them happened , she said , when ‘ her eyes were ever together-ward as if she would have slept ’ , some she saw ‘ with her ghostly eye ’ ; most of her experiences with the Holy Family she describes just as she does her other , more ordinary experiences . |
| 11 | He arrives just before she leaves . |
| 12 | Disappointingly though , in her efforts to be balanced Valentine rarely lets us see just where she stands ; though she does make a strong plea for psychologists not to ape either physics or sociology . |
| 13 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 14 | And therefore people said of her that she would be lucky , for things had begun to grow just as she appeared , buds started to sprout and birds to practise their spring songs . |
| 15 | Her Report , finished just before she left , is clearly written , well argued , and , I hope , gives us a good chance of receiving funding . |
| 16 | But growing up and learning how she ought to feel and behave , what she ought to value , means that she has to give up doing just as she pleases . |
| 17 | The phone rang just as she had climbed into the bath . |
| 18 | Billie picked her way between the graves , stumbled just before she reached him , but he leant forward and easily caught her . |
| 19 | Once or twice she met Carrie 's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did . |
| 20 | She knew just where she stood , as seen from the twisted , ancient oak on the skyline . |
| 21 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 22 | That 's his mother 's plastic table she bought just before she died . |
| 23 | She says it 's all happened just because she chose to marry an RAF serviceman . |
| 24 | The record ended just as she spoke and her voice caused people to stare at them . |
| 25 | And she was n't such a push-over she was going to melt just because she 'd fallen in love with a man with a heart of ice . |