Example sentences of "just as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | A gut-churning premonition had hit me , the horrific conviction that the relics would have moved , just as I had moved . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 40 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 41 | Just as I realised that we would have to abort our manoeuvre in view of the ship 's overhanging davits there was a loud exclamation from the man on deck , " I say , Cynthia , the captain 's got a blasted parrot on his shoulder . " |
| 42 | He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun . |
| 43 | Countless au pairs fled sobbing back to Bilbao after he swooped on their smalls yelling , ‘ Just as I thought ! |
| 44 | He did his imitation of Barbara Coleman 's voice again : ‘ Just as I thought . |
| 45 | Ah , just as I thought … |
| 46 | Yes , there were still four wheels ( well , you never know these days ) and , just as I thought , the interior was littered with sodding confetti . |
| 47 | Just as I thought ! |
| 48 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 49 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 50 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 52 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
| 53 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Needless to say , they went straight to the police , just as I 'd done when I received that first threat . |
| 56 | 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 ! ) . |
| 57 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 58 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 59 | Beejay always seems to spot the object in the hedge that he can not possibly pass without a protect , just as I hear the roar of a fast-moving car at our rear . |
| 60 | Just as I walked out the door , there was that there , and I said , Oh what 's this . |