Example sentences of "just as i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I like to take care of my staff , just as I intend to take care of my wife — if the one I love will marry me . ’ |
2 | I had accepted the equal reality of Mary Shelley and her creation , Victor Frankenstein , just as I had accepted the equal reality of Victor and his monster . |
3 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
4 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
5 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
6 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
7 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
8 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
9 | A gut-churning premonition had hit me , the horrific conviction that the relics would have moved , just as I had moved . |
10 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
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 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
13 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
14 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
15 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
16 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
17 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
18 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
19 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
20 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
21 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
22 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
23 | Then , just as I began to fall , |
24 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
25 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
26 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
27 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
28 | it 's just as I 've started in n it , I thought oh I have n't pulled the handbrake off , you know , but , it wo n't go any higher |
29 | just as I 've left home , very kind of you I 've just |
30 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |