Example sentences of "just as i be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They could be safe somewhere , just as I am here .
2 Just as I am about to despatch this month 's musings , lots of late news has reached me .
3 Just as I 'm not quite sure what Kemp was doing , after he left his publishers .
4 Dawn and me , just as I 'm about to fly her .
5 Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed .
6 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 .
7 Just as I was about to get in , the man spoke again .
8 Just as I was about to say it again , the Canadian spoke .
9 Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen .
10 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 .
11 Just as I was about to ask further , she went on : ‘ My part — the little part that I had — it is gone … ’
12 HINDLEY CAME INTO the kitchen , swearing terribly , just as I was about to hide little Hareton in a cupboard .
13 He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 ‘ Actually , you arrived just as I was about to invite Leith to Parkwood .
16 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 .
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