Example sentences of "[adv] as i was about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I was about to say it again , the Canadian spoke . |
| 2 | Just as I was about to ask further , she went on : ‘ My part — the little part that I had — it is gone … ’ |
| 3 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , you arrived just as I was about to invite Leith to Parkwood . |
| 5 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 6 | I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal . |
| 7 | ‘ What height is this table ? ’ he said suddenly , just as I was about to go to the breadbin for a slice to wipe my plate with . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | HINDLEY CAME INTO the kitchen , swearing terribly , just as I was about to hide little Hareton in a cupboard . |
| 10 | Just as I was about to get in , the man spoke again . |
| 11 | 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 . |