Example sentences of "just as [pers pn] be [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just as I was about to get in , the man spoke again . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 34 | Just as he is about to follow MR . |
| 35 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 36 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 37 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 38 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is a regular human being with knobs on , midway through our interview , midway through an answer , just as he 's about to take a swig of his double decaff coffee with lemon on the side , he announces that he has to go to the toilet . |
| 39 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 40 | Now , inexplicably , just as he was about to reach his goal , things had suddenly speeded up . |
| 41 | Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen . |
| 42 | Just as he was about to leave , my convict said , ‘ Officer , after my escape , I stole some food , from the blacksmith 's house . |
| 43 | A special accolade for Stefan , that prodigy of a man who virtually single-handed got everything together on time , and then , just as he was about to go through the orchestra door he saw Madge Grimsilk , the headdress of a rat under her arm , hurrying up to the wings . |
| 44 | Or maybe , rather than a total replay , just award the Cup to England due to Campese 's blatant obstruction on Underwood just as he was about to tackle Horan . |
| 45 | Just as he was about to open the beer the doorbell rang . |
| 46 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 47 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 48 | Just as he was about to lever the rest of himself up , a shock jolted through him . |
| 49 | Just as he was about to come downstairs he heard Jonathan singing . |
| 50 | He landed in the forecourt of a carpet shop , scattering the merchandise and customers , dived through its rear exit trailing apologies , skidded down another alley and stopped , teetering dangerously , just as he was about to plunge unthinkingly into the Ankh . |
| 51 | Just as he was about to travel to Paris in November , to open a book exhibition and make a speech at the Bibliothèque Nationale , he caught a heavy cold which turned to bronchitis with congestion of the lungs ; a nurse was called in and he took a course of penicillin , but he still managed to make the journey . |
| 52 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 53 | She gets the cane out and just as she 's about to whip me , er Jane walks in . |
| 54 | A flaw in her plan then struck her , just as she was about to go . |
| 55 | Then just as she was about to replace the receiver she heard his voice , that soft familiar Scottish burr . |
| 56 | Then , just as she was about to press the switch to ‘ Play ’ , it occurred to Leonora that Penry Vaughan 's eyes were n't dark like her own , after all . |
| 57 | I reached her just as she was about to hoist herself out . |
| 58 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 59 | The phone rang on and on , but just as she was about to give up she was answered by a sleepy female voice . |
| 60 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |