Example sentences of "just as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi would have understood that challenge , just as I think he would have been happy to agree that it is possible to speak without contradiction of the literal imagination . |
| 2 | The sense of its otherness , he wrote , just as I wanted it , an alien object , one never before seen on our planet , not quite animal , not quite mineral , not quite vegetable , yet familiar , familiar . |
| 3 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 4 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 5 | I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists . |
| 6 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I lean against the window of the bus and watch the raindrops spatter down , just as I must have done when I was a kid . |
| 9 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 10 | People younger than him , he noted , ‘ not only reject all a priori ideological filters , just as I do , but … refuse to have anything to do with people who use such filters . |
| 11 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 12 | ‘ Just as I am , without one plea , |
| 13 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 14 | The inspector 's warning came too late — just as I put my hand through the bars . |
| 15 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 16 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 17 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 18 | Just as I imagined it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I remember now , ’ she said : ‘ I did have one dream , just as I was waking up . |
| 21 | Then , just as I 'd half a mind to twiddle with the radio in case Marlene Dietrich was still on , there would be another lurch of the Tardis-like mood and I 'd come upon a garishly-lit motel , freshly shipped across from the West , or else be smartly overtaken by a monstrous new Mercedes doing 200 kph or more with effortless abandon , at least until the next plunge into potholes and waterlogged scree . |
| 22 | And then , just as I was reaching for my battered copy of Einstein , Jon Snow gave away the secret . |
| 23 | The people standing about had evidently supposed , just as I had ( for , however unwilling , we are all children of our illusion-ridden time ) , that the whole thing was part of a story being filmed for television . |
| 24 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | The concept is an enormous one for twelve-year-olds to grasp with any sense of reality , for many children of that age would regard it as fun if their family had to go away to new lands — just as I can recall at that age receiving the news of the outbreak of the Second World War with great joy ! |
| 28 | They could be safe somewhere , just as I am here . |
| 29 | ‘ New York called just as I was leaving . |
| 30 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |