Example sentences of "[noun pl] just when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 2 | ‘ He had a knack of jumping on roundabouts just when they were coming to a dead stop . ’ |
| 3 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 4 | But , I 've had them on buses several times just when I , when I 'm going on a bus . |
| 5 | But this hardly solves the problem of knowing how to obtain the relevant indices just when we need them . |
| 6 | Alec Stewart and Graeme Hick , who played so well in England 's first innings , bagged ducks just when their country needed a repeat performance . |
| 7 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 8 | He took a gulp at the Scotch and gave a wry smile at the injustices of this world which caused him to be smitten with another one of those blinding attacks just when he was about to make it . |
| 9 | Like the ambulance service who is having to go out and find income , having to do health and safety checks at factories just when you need an ambulance . |
| 10 | Even those few are now being bled dry by charges and commissions just when they thought that they had entered the land of milk and honey . |
| 11 | Flower vans should be mobilised countrywide and staff given the bouquets just when the queues are at their thickest . |
| 12 | However , this option , quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling , entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly . |
| 13 | INDIGO GIRLS Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the folk club … |
| 14 | Diphtheria , scarlet fever , measles , and whooping cough attacked older children just when they seemed clear of the terrible hazards of infancy . |
| 15 | Imagination and nerves just when you did not expect it . |
| 16 | It would be folly to raise his hopes just when the loss of the letters had effectively dashed them . |