Example sentences of "just as [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overcrowding , insanitary conditions and inadequate services ( particularly medical , educational and cultural ) , together with the accompanying problems of health risks and rising crime rates , began to make their appearance in Spanish cities in the 1950s , just as they had already appeared in large connurbations elsewhere in the world . |
| 2 | After several such pairings , the dogs learned to salivate to the music just as they had previously salivated to the food . |
| 3 | However , just as they had formerly worked to obtain their fortune , so also the nouveaux riches were obliged to employ material goods to assert their social pretensions . |
| 4 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 5 | The androids had killed her sister , just as they had almost killed her . |
| 6 | And now I realize that people still lie , steal , and fight , just as they have always done , and probably will always do . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 9 | We 've just as I 've just said , we 've just finished reorganising our department . |
| 10 | ‘ Just as I 've always visualised it . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Just as I 've always looked ? ’ she added archly . |
| 13 | It made their day , just as he had earlier put a smile on the face of many in Craigmillar . |
| 14 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 15 | Yes , there it was at the centre , just as she 'd half recalled , a small panel carved with two stars and a Centaur aiming an arrow into the night sky . |
| 16 | Dorothy Fanshawe had forgotten who these kind though tiresome people were , just as she had again forgotten where she was . |
| 17 | She had n't meant to say it , just as she had never meant to touch him . |
| 18 | Every night she greased her face , whited everything out and redrew it just as she had always done ; a heavy coat of pale powder , black mascara , black eyeliner , heavily pencilled black eyebrows , and then , finally , her famous scarlet lips , always perfect , always done in the same shade , Rouge Extrême . |
| 19 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 20 | Fran said : ‘ Fingers crossed , she can soon sit in class with all the other youngsters just as she has always wanted . |
| 21 | ( Just as she has never believed Christ existed until she read about him in Tacitus — an independent witness . ) |