Example sentences of "[pers pn] just as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 32 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 33 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |
| 34 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 35 | The more he knew Sarah , the more he liked her , but he wondered if she saw him just as Anne 's sedate older brother , not part of the flirting casual crowd of her own age group as Terry was . |
| 36 | Isabel started to run towards him just as another block of stone came away from the wall , hurtling downwards . |
| 37 | He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her . |
| 38 | He mattered to Shelley very much — as a doctor and as a person , and she could n't bear to think of him losing that precious heart to this young girl , who regarded him just as someone to pay her bills . |
| 39 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |
| 40 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 41 | He left her just as Carlo Negri was shown in . |
| 42 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |
| 43 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 44 | I reached her just as she was about to hoist herself out . |
| 45 | He reached her just as she made an attempt to stand , and caught hold of her upper arms . |
| 46 | On Wednesday he came and found her just as she was finishing off applying a back-slab to a fractured wrist . |
| 47 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 48 | I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy . |
| 49 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 50 | Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | I decided to leave it , to leave it just as it was , as I had remembered it . |
| 53 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 54 | You may divide it into sections , such as in the tables , record it just as it is spoken , or however else you wish , but do record it for later reference and to help you learn . |
| 55 | This is a self-working trick if you do it just as described . |
| 56 | She would accept it just as she accepted her heartbeat and her pulses . |
| 57 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 58 | With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake . |
| 59 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 60 | ‘ Instead of making a painting which interpreted an object or depicted its content ’ , he recalls , ‘ I found an object and ‘ presented ’ it just as it was ’ . |