Example sentences of "[was/were] just as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never could tell with Felipe de Santis and at the moment things were just as he wanted them . |
| 2 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 3 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 4 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 5 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
| 6 | He could see the end coming , and it was just as she 'd said ; the friends he 'd made and lost , and the women that he wished he 'd known better . |
| 7 | But it was just as she 'd expected . |
| 8 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
| 9 | It was just as she had dreamed in her dreams it would be — a blissful sensation that shot down to her toes and sent her blood , like fiery rapids , exploding through her veins . |
| 10 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 11 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 12 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
| 13 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 14 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 15 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 16 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |