Example sentences of "just when it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers and all other competitive sports people stay out but cricketers scurry back inside just when it is getting interesting . |
| 2 | Any character may take this item , but each time it is used ( not just when it is worn ! ) , the wearer must make a successful WP test or suffer from despair for D10 turns . |
| 3 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 4 | The voluntary bodies must be consulted in a rather more positive fashion than the very flimsy effort so far produced by the Scottish Development Department and the Government must now throw the baby out with the bath water and greatly weaken our statutory conservation agency just when it is needed most . |
| 5 | The short duration of the contracts on offer is considered unrealistic and Jim Halliday , chairman of the BWEA , believes Britain 's renewable energy programme could be halted " just when it is needed most " since the NFFO is threatened with termination in 1998 . |
| 6 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 7 | ‘ Against the deep blue of the sky just when it was getting dark , ’ said Jane Postlethwaite enthusiastically . |
| 8 | These gas mantles brought new life to gas lighting just when it was threatened by Swan 's electric light bulbs . |
| 9 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 10 | One of the particularly tragic consequences of the war has been the way it has distracted attention from events in the USSR and Eastern Europe , just when it was needed most . |