Example sentences of "just as she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just as she said that , Julia had started her own question . |
| 32 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 33 | The respite was not to last however for , just as she heard the guards wondering aloud if they had hit her , someone on one of the freighters pointed her out with a cry . |
| 34 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 35 | Her school pals sang Morning Has Broken , The Colours Of The Day and Once In Royal David 's City just as she asked . |
| 36 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 37 | She made Maggie kneel down and lean her head over the bathtub , just as she had when Maggie had to have her hair washed as a little child . |
| 38 | Dorothy Fanshawe had forgotten who these kind though tiresome people were , just as she had again forgotten where she was . |
| 39 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 40 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 41 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 42 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Just as she had been a conscientious dancer , she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman . |
| 45 | She left him confused , just as she had been left confused . |
| 46 | She ran quickly round to the front of the house , just as she had planned . |
| 47 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 48 | Mother Francis had nurtured them behind the scenes , just as she had taken cuttings from the various bushes and plants in the convent garden and made a garden around the stony waste ground , the ugly edge of the cliff where Jack Malone had ended his life . |
| 49 | Mrs Frizzell hastily drew in her stomach , tucked in her tail , and posed with her rake , just as she had seen the Hudson 's Bay Company model do when showing pants . |
| 50 | Just as she had said , the porter 's wife opened up the main door and the inner gate from her room and then poked her head out . |
| 51 | She played with her lace handkerchief , just as she had done at Greenway Gardens . |
| 52 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 53 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 54 | And just as she had found peace in his words , so did he in hers now . |
| 55 | At the back of her mind , Miranda heard the ghostly voice of Buzz say , ‘ Any Latin lover can say ‘ I love you ’ , but she pushed the thought away , just as she had pushed away other silly possibilities . |
| 56 | Muriel held the broad shoulders and was surprised at the strangeness of the proximity , just as she had been surprised at the sight of Delia 's loosened hair some weeks before . |
| 57 | Glancing at the table , she saw that the girl had done everything just as she had shown her … the big brown teapot had pride of place in the centre of the table , with the pretty rose-patterned milk jug and sugar bowl beside it . |
| 58 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 59 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 60 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |