Example sentences of "[noun prp] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 2 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 3 | If you are going to buy a camcorder , it might seem to he sensible to keep to this format : all your cassettes would be interchangeable , and you would be able to play back your own recordings on your colour television via your existing VCR just as you would any other tape . |
| 4 | Only her father had done that and he had obviously welcomed Alain Lemarchand just as he had rejected her . |
| 5 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 6 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 7 | You go not just for the rides ( one of the most popular , Earthquake , puts you in San Francisco just as the Big One hits ) but for the chance to see how filmmakers , animators and special effects wizards all conspire to create the magic of film . |
| 8 | Bogarde plays a Russian emigre who runs a chocolate factory in Germany just as the Nazis begin to take power . |
| 9 | I came to Framlingham just as you were going . |
| 10 | According to legend the Pentateuch was written by Moses just as the Psalms were written by David . |
| 11 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 12 | The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames says merely , ‘ Forsey ( see Fursey ) ’ , and under the latter has ‘ furzy enclosure — found early in Dorset just as Forsey is now . ’ |
| 13 | Tammuz managed to catch Roirbak just as he was making the finishing touches to his evening regalia : black , matt silk suit with thread-wide yellow pinstripe , understated gold adornments , I-Ching earrings . |
| 14 | Jessamyn Bonney … behind electro-bars at Tehachapi just as soon as the schedule allows . ’ |
| 15 | Late in the afternoon , Loppe arrived , which frankly no one had expected , for Loppe was managing things at Kouklia just as Mick Crackbene was guarding the harbour at Famagusta . |
| 16 | Reports in American newspapers and on television ensured that they were heard in Washington just as President Clinton was considering whether to tie trade with China to questions of human rights . |
| 17 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 18 | One night I remember , she knocked on the door at Denmark Street just as we were packing up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They scattered for safety as a coach pulled up ; it had begun its final tumultuous dash from Trafalgar Square just as they had hammered at the door . |
| 21 | If coin 's so short , it might be simpler to offer me to Owen just as I am , in exchange for Mortimer . |
| 22 | She would get to work on Maxie just as soon as his presence at home should coincide with hers ; she had not seen him since returning from the tea , except when crawling wearily into bed . |
| 23 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 24 | In his final year at Exeter , where he took a degree in economics and agriculture economics , he joined Bath just as the Avon club started to take off on its four-year domination of the John Player Cup . |
| 25 | He argued that Europe needed Africa just as the east coast of America needed the west . |
| 26 | Devon lost the services of Peter Roebuck just as he was becoming a key member of their side . |
| 27 | So Howard flies out from the Bahamas just as Bill Saltman flies in . |
| 28 | They were even more uncomfortable when their father entered with Rose just as the full hall was waiting for the curtain to go up . |
| 29 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 30 | They got onto Timmy just as things were beginning to move . |