Example sentences of "just as i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 3 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 4 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 5 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A gut-churning premonition had hit me , the horrific conviction that the relics would have moved , just as I had moved . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 14 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 15 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 16 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
| 17 | 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 ! ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 20 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 21 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 22 | And it 's just as I 've said in local government , er we only get what you 've put in . |
| 23 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | just as I 've left home , very kind of you I 've just |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | No doubt there are those who have seen fear on my face in certain circumstances in this campaign , just as I have seen the same fear on their faces in the same circumstances . |
| 28 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |