Example sentences of "just as [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In fact , ‘ have a nice day ’ was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers ' ears just as they walked off the premises , instead of the terminal ‘ bye ’ or ‘ see yah ’ , so they 'd come back .
2 Things like this are always hurtful but I hope that people will have faith just as they have in the resurrection of Jesus .
3 They are choosing to ignore it , just as they did with the poll tax .
4 Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests .
5 As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 .
6 That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America .
7 ‘ It is here , in Ralarth , that the thing begins — here that the main characters come from , just as they did in the book .
8 The laws of science will hold at them , just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth .
9 Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild .
10 Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict .
11 So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century .
12 Just as we got to the rotunda , a jazz band further up the street started to play .
13 Just as we got to the doors a voice said ‘ Full up . ’
14 We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids .
15 Then the bearers carried the coffin out and the Salvation Army band struck up with ‘ Nearer My God to Thee ’ just as we climbed into the carriage .
16 Next , mark the outline of the board onto the film and then lay down the positions of the copper pads to act as a reference , just as we did in the ‘ direct etch ’ method last month .
17 And then just as you go in the sort of crossways the new Horse Fayre shopping precinct sort of thing
18 It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics .
19 this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but
20 Just as you look at the candle flame there burning , erm it 's a symbol .
21 And just as you have in the past answered our call for money , so you are now ready to answer our call for people .
22 I feel you should have maybe said , ‘ Yes , Eric , okay , that 's really relevant , ’ and then edited the comment out just as you did with the rest of my letter .
23 Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ .
24 Bodily discomfort , added to the anger that still bubbled unpleasantly inside him , had the effect of clarifying his mind , just as it had on the day of the press conference .
25 The neurosis of humanity arose out of the relation to the father , just as it does for the child .
26 Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness .
27 It began to matter to Philip that Richard was a ‘ natural ’ : just as it mattered to the boy himself .
28 The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber .
29 The animal is knitted as a single motif just as it appears on the graph .
30 Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away .
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