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As soon as A, B
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As soon as I warned them the children again scattered the toys about.
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I forgot the rules to the game as soon as I heard them!
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AVerb: Casual, past (た)
 
 
そばからBAction
Basic Examples:
えるかられる (forget as soon as one learns)

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Grammar usage notes

Usually used to express something the speaker doesn't like、but which happens repeatedly.
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lou1sb
Level: 1
The second clause must be something that happens as if in opposition to the first clause. As lou1sb stated, it must be something that is a repeating occurrence.
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Level: 1

whatever happens in A immediately gets negated by B
がケーキをくそばからべている
するようったそばからこした。
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デミフィ
Level: 857
そばから carries a sense of one action being almost immediately undone or contradicted by another action. Specifically, it’s used to describe situations where, as soon as you complete an action, it’s quickly reversed or invalidated, often to the speaker’s frustration.
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jm27937
Level: 1023
AをしてもすぐBがきるので、もA、Bを
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とくむ
Level: 203

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Level: 1
Some of the example sentences feel a little wonky to me, so I thought I would post a loose translation of the grammar explanation from page 9 of the New Kanzen Master N1 grammar book. "Even though A has been done, B happens as if in opposition to the action performed in A. This is a cycle that repeats a number of times. [...] Typically used to express undesirable things." : 『~をしても、すぐにそれにするようなきがあり、それをす。』 『くないことに使うことがい。』
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