Example sentences of "just as [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they reached the top and comparative safety , Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out . |
| 2 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 3 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 4 | Joe steals two bus tickets to Miami , but Ratso dies just as they reach the place of his dreams . |
| 5 | Is there any evidence that bats have " discovered " it too , just as they did the send/receive system ? |
| 6 | He , like Beatty , manipulates women just as they do the media . |
| 7 | Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision . |
| 8 | Just as they defended the school friends we disapproved of , so they are likely to stick to their own choice of girl or boyfriend . |
| 9 | It was thought that this would stimulate our divinity students in being close to the university and so involved in contact with university students who would in future years be leaders of the nation , just as we hoped the divinity students would become leaders of the Church . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , just as we finished the boss came past in a hell of a state . |
| 11 | Suddenly , just as we rounded the bend and were able to glimpse the gables and turrets of Templecombe above the trees , one of the soldiers came riding back so fast his horse , slithering and clattering on the path , almost crashed into Mandeville 's mount . |
| 12 | Just as we need the rain forests , the fish need the plants , and only healthy , assimilating plants can do the job nature has designed them for . |
| 13 | " Just as we used the tiger as a symbol to secure the protection of a huge diversity of habitats in India , so we want to achieve the same with the elephant in Africa " , Simon Lyster adds . |
| 14 | Just as we have the ebb and flow of seasons , each with its own appointed purpose ; just as the rest of night follows the activity of day , so too could there be vast seasons of the Mind , spanning aeons , which hold the world in balance , removing dead wood , and vitalizing and renewing harmony between all forms ? |
| 15 | The EC1 Pattern Controller has two pattern width dials , one for the left and one for the right of the pattern , so with this equipment you can of course use the right of the mylar sheet just as you use the left . |
| 16 | Just as you thought the coupe for the masses had receded into a misty-eyed memory of metallic-blue Ford Capris and diamond-white Opel Mantas , along comes the Calibra ; a practical yet sleek four-seater to set the high-mileage rep 's heart alike . |
| 17 | just as you reach the square you will pass , to your left , the Scuole Arcimbolde , a huge building adjacent to the church of Sant' Alessandro . |
| 18 | It will take a second Pearl Harbor for the Americans to realise how inefficient the NSA really is , just as it took the Falklands War of 1982 to reveal the deficiencies at GCHQ . |
| 19 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 20 | The obvious solution is to stop filling scarce space with bulky rubbish just as it left the bin : switch to recycling and incineration . |
| 21 | The brilliance of the recent verbal firework display he put on at Westminster enchanted his party — just as it alarmed the Labour Party that John Smith proved such an easy target for him . |
| 22 | Emerson Fittipaldi was the next Lotus world champion and , just as it seemed the midas touch was deserting Chapman , American Mario Andretti lifted the 1978 title in the Lotus 78/79 , with team-mate Ronnie Peterson ( Swe ) second . |
| 23 | just as it reached the top of the trunk , the bird flew away . |
| 24 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 25 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 26 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 27 | Victor was known within Celtic language studies as the author of a seminal book whose title , The Decline of the Celtic Languages ( John Donald , Edinburgh , 1983 ) , disguised the richness of its scope , just as it disguised the alternative interests of the author . |
| 28 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |
| 29 | JUST AS I LOATHE THE WORD ‘ WORKSHOP ’ , I FEEL QUEASY WHEN PLACES include the word ‘ centre ’ . |
| 30 | Just as I left the station for the bus stop , the siren went . |