Example sentences of "[vb pp] just as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 2 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 3 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 4 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 5 | It 's unfortunate your big end 's gone just as we 've run out of lanolin , will axle grease do ? |
| 6 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 7 | Things might have happened just as he says . |
| 8 | Everything had to be maintained just as it had been — for the day when Isabelle returned to Les Hiboux . |
| 9 | There are gas masks , ration books , lots of soldiers , sailors and airmen and hordes of pretty girls , plus some ladies dressed just as I remember my own mother and Auntie Ethel ! |
| 10 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |