Example sentences of "just when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when his ship was coming in she might have set fire to it . |
| 2 | As always happens , will have mastered it completely just when I have no more use for it . |
| 3 | Red roses that look vivid at midday seem to vanish as dusk falls , just when white flowers are at their most luminous . |
| 4 | And then just when we might not stop , oh my love , my virgin forest and me your virgin explorer , it is time , just like that , to stop . |
| 5 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 6 | And it shows , in Beerbohm and Bowra and as it survives today , how inevitable it was that Pound should have abandoned England and the English just when he did . |
| 7 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 8 | Just when we expected to see Cordoba produce an extra gear as Walter Swinburn got to work with the whip , the son of El Gran Senor capitulated and it was Balla Cove who produced extra reserves to hold the late thrust of Rock City . |
| 9 | At the start of August the former was telling the outside world of Russia 's quick recovery , just when the latter was still being very pessimistic . |
| 10 | His sang-froid comes so naturally that , when death seems imminent , he remarks : ‘ It seems too bad that just when we get to where there 's a fortune in diamonds , the mountain should decide to sit down on it . ’ |
| 11 | Just when it seemed that a try would be too much to hope for after 30 tedious minutes , the crowd were treated to two first-class efforts , from Ledger and Fox , playing his first game at Hilton Park since he left Leigh for Leeds three years ago . |
| 12 | Crossley had to move quickly to save a glancing header from Sharp and just when it looked as if Forest might be more grateful for a replay Chapman won the tie . |
| 13 | Just when you thought it was safe to watch another Wimbledon game … |
| 14 | Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet . |
| 15 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 16 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 17 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 18 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 19 | The frowners fear that the ideal of European union will fade just when it is usefully poised to temper the return of nationalism to Europe in general and Germany in particular . |
| 20 | More importantly , by giving the impression that the government 's control-room department is neither flustered nor panicky , his confident , self-possessed performance has bolstered the prime minister 's own position just when she needed that support most . |
| 21 | Just when it is vital to get policy on sterling right , the task has become virtually impossible . |
| 22 | The oddity is that , just when the Soviet Union is discovering the merit of think-tanks engaged in ideological combat , the American scene has gone quiet . |
| 23 | Just when banks and pension funds are trying to get more involved in the management of firms they lend to and own , so their opportunity to do so has been narrowed . |
| 24 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And just when I thought everything was changing for the better . |
| 27 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
| 28 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 29 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 30 | Complaints about a shortage of coins occur in Cicero 's letters of the early 40s BC , just when the graph suggests a reduction of liquidity . |