Example sentences of "just as [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 3 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 4 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 5 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 6 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 7 | The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting . |
| 8 | Just as you loved to push the piled live hedge-boughs — |
| 9 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 10 | Just as it began to break we burst through to the other side and we were safe into smoother water . |
| 11 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 12 | The bourgeoisie as a class found enormous difficulty in combining getting and spending in a morally satisfactory manner , just as it failed to solve the equivalent material problem , how to secure a succession of equally dynamic and capable businessmen within the same family , a fact which increased the role of daughters , who could introduce new blood into the business complex . |
| 13 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 14 | Then , just as I began to fall , |
| 15 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 17 | He declined to acknowledge my ideas sufficiently , just as he declined to acknowledge my feelings sufficiently . |
| 18 | Just as he began to hoist her upwards , she turned on him and snapped , ‘ Leave me alone ! |
| 19 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 20 | Gasping with desperate exertion , she got the canoe into the water , and leapt into it just as he seemed to realise what she was doing . |
| 21 | She wanted to forget all about this man beside her , just as he seemed to have forgotten about her . |
| 22 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 23 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 24 | He always required an underlying form from which he could then depart , just as he tended to use a literary " model " from which he could derive a manner and a tone . |
| 25 | Just as he started to feel that he could not endure it any longer , that he would have to struggle , Doyle 's fingers relaxed slightly . |
| 26 | She stared at him speechlessly , hardly daring to believe the hidden meaning behind his words , then , just as she managed to find her voice , there was a knock at the door . |
| 27 | Just as she had to accept that , for her , it would never be enough . |