Example sentences of "just as i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , just as I drifting off to sleep , I can see Dan Rogers running the length of the pitch to slip the ball past Bob Wilson , or Allan Clarke 's diving header past Geoff Barnett in 1972 , or Willie Young presenting Ipswich Town 's Roger Osborne with an unmissable chance in 1978 , or Nigel Winterburn 's penalty miss ten years later , or Seaman palming Lineker 's cross-shot into the corner of the net in last year 's semi-final . |
| 2 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 3 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 4 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 5 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 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 | We 've just as I 've just said , we 've just finished reorganising our department . |
| 8 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Just as I 've always visualised it . |
| 10 | Just as I 've always looked ? ’ she added archly . |
| 11 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 12 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 14 | But suddenly , just as I grabbed up the half-eroded head of a carved-stone monkey , I found my finger caught so fast between its gritty teeth that a gasp broke from me . |
| 15 | Signe saw the policeman just as I pulled away from the kerb . |