Example sentences of "just as [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment longer he sat frozen , then just as Jezrael cannoned into him he knocked the scalding can away . |
| 2 | Just as Eve came from Adam 's rib , just as Venus was born out of the waves , Agnes sprang from the gesture of that sixty-year-old woman at the pool who waved to the lifeguard and whose features are already fading from my memory . |
| 3 | Now suppose that Y had improved the goods ( just as Harper did in Greenwood v. Bennett ) . |
| 4 | It is more sensible , just as Thatcher said in Dublin at the end of April , to start by explaining clearly what European political union does not mean rather than waffling puffily about what it does . |
| 5 | Yes but that 's I think that Desmond 's quite right , what should have happened was just as Emmy said to me originally , you keep your sewing money separate . |
| 6 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 7 | Just as Britain tried to ‘ deal with ’ water pollution with longer pipes and the principle of dilute and disperse , its reliance on exactly the same policy has drawn it into conflicts over air pollution . |
| 8 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |
| 9 | Just as Hobbes distinguished between mental discourse and verbal discourse , so Locke distinguished between ‘ mental propositions ’ and ‘ verbal propositions ’ . |
| 10 | We renounce our own way of living and thinking to live the life of obedient faith — just as Jesus lived on earth . |
| 11 | Just as Jesus remained with and guided the disciples , so will the Paraclete ( 14 16–18 ) . |
| 12 | Lear must have received considerable encouragement from the Fellows of the Zoological Society , just as Gould had after him ; not to mention the contacts necessary to recruit his 175 subscribers . |
| 13 | He recovers it neatly , just as Serafin dives for it herself and sets more oranges cascading . |
| 14 | I parked outside No. 9 just as Werewolf reversed into a space two millimetres longer than the BMW across the road . |
| 15 | For in the presence of Kirsty Jake behaved impeccably , with not the slightest hint of animosity towards Shiona , just as Shiona behaved towards him . |
| 16 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 17 | The outside door opened and a man entered the house just as Frankie slipped through the other door into the dark corridor beyond . |
| 18 | He has made an understandable decision to Americanise the story , just as Disney did with European fairy-tales like Pinocchio and English classics such as The Jungle Book . |
| 19 | The Nun 's Priest therefore emerges from his tale as a character — a character who adopts an amusing persona as the teller of a tale just as Chaucer does in his narrator-pilgrim " Chaucer " . |
| 20 | At L.A. County , Rusty built the profile of the museum through big exhibitions … just as Carter did at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 21 | It will get my dishes really clean , just as Persil does with my washing . |