Example sentences of "just as it be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
2 | Harley would have them jump ship just as it 's pulling into the dock . |
3 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
4 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
5 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
6 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
7 | ‘ Suicide — suicide by drowning — about three or four hours ago , just as it was getting dark . |
8 | just as it was getting light . |
9 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
10 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
11 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |