Example sentences of "just as [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Grimwood reports Newman did arrive and spoilt their act just as they 'd got Lennox to agree to sign . |
| 2 | I made a point of saying to the Indian Ministers whom I met that , just as they had announced elections in the Punjab , so it would be excellent if they could start a political process in Kashmir so that there would be people representing the Kashmiris with whom the Government could talk . |
| 3 | The rumours killed Rachel Jackson before hubby took office , just as they had killed his 1824 presidential bid . |
| 4 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 5 | Although the Poles could have exercised a military option in the north just as they had done in Silesia , by this time their involvement in a war against the infant Soviet state , over territories and borders in the eastern provinces , made this a logistical impossibility . |
| 6 | Just as they had done on May Day , the anti-Communist demonstrators who marched across Red Square , after the official parade , left Gorbachev in no doubt as to his own unpopularity and that of his regime . |
| 7 | If they were to set up their own company in America instead , and negotiate a distribution deal with an American major just as they had done with Island when first setting up Virgin — then that profit margin could be inflated from around 18 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 8 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 9 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 10 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |
| 11 | Speaker 12 used Creole syntax and phonology and was judged to be black by the majority of respondents , just as they had judged Speaker 2 ( = 11 ) to be black in her " Creole " guise . |
| 12 | They scattered for safety as a coach pulled up ; it had begun its final tumultuous dash from Trafalgar Square just as they had hammered at the door . |
| 13 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 14 | So er says right , I 'll see you later , and just as we 'd gone away Joke got back out the car er , and she says do n't worry about the money . |
| 15 | Just as we 'd closed the window and were breathing a sigh of relief there was a loud knock on the door . |
| 16 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
| 17 | Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax . |
| 18 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 19 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 20 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 21 | Consequently the onus of distinguishing between the ‘ deserving ’ and the ‘ undeserving ’ poor tended to fall upon the officer dealing with the applicant in the fields just as it had fallen upon the relieving officer in the past . |
| 22 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 23 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 24 | The Imperial ambassador reported that the willing lenders never expected to see their money again : their pessimism was justified , since Parliament remitted all obligation on the King to repay , just as it had done in 1529 . |
| 25 | Authority had decreed when I must sleep and when I must not , just as it had decreed when and how much I should eat ; it was my business , in my bid for autonomy , to reverse the decisions of authority . |
| 26 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 27 | It could crumble , and all human culture could collapse , just as it had collapsed once before , but this time never to rise again . |
| 28 | Juliet waited for the furious words , just as it had happened before . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |