Example sentences of "[verb] just as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 2 | On the day of the marriage , Ben arrives just as the couple are pronounced man and wife , taking the unreluctant Elaine away with him . |
| 3 | However where demand is known to be variable , for example if a large share of output is exported , any major internal expansion carries the danger of periodic over-capacity with consequent higher average costs just as the market is weakest . |
| 4 | Chuck raised his rifle coolly and fired just as the bull launched itself on him . |
| 5 | He turned just as the kettle began to boil , and , the tea forgotten , he strode from the kitchen and out of the flat . |
| 6 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 7 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 8 | They also want to speak to an elderly man who was wearing a brown jacket and was refused entry to the bank because he arrived just as the robber had left . |
| 9 | Watch the seed carefully , as it ripens suddenly and will fall without warning ; alternatively cut the flower stems just as the smell of the seeds start to change and become pleasant , and hang to finish ripening in paper bags . |
| 10 | The artist of the red dot work may have dropped the dot onto the large white area from 20 metres with an uncertain gusty wind blowing just as the handbag may have been dropped onto the seat from an overladen pair of hands . |
| 11 | Mr Lawrence believes that the market price for auditing can fluctuate just as the price for bananas can go up and down . |
| 12 | They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work . |
| 13 | MARGARETE Buber-Neumann lived and suffered much in the eye of the storm of history that tore Europe apart , and died just as the world was watching incredulously what seems to be the great schism 's healing . |
| 14 | The island is 700 miles from the North Pole and the team of explorers will arrive just as the ice seas start to melt . |
| 15 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 16 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 17 | He spoke just as the door opened . |
| 18 | When she moved she waddled just as the captain had illustrated . |
| 19 | There are still a ‘ few ’ leaves left just as the poet has but a little life remaining within him . |
| 20 | She slept soundly and awoke just as the dawn was swelling in a luminous golden tide across the sky . |