Example sentences of "just as [pron] [verb] always " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 2 | Obviously , the real nasties , Sun readers , are just as they have always been , vile and pretty anti-gay . |
| 3 | And now I realize that people still lie , steal , and fight , just as they have always done , and probably will always do . |
| 4 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 5 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Just as I 've always visualised it . |
| 7 | Just as I 've always looked ? ’ she added archly . |
| 8 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 9 | This was my dad , just as he had always been . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
| 12 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 13 | Fran said : ‘ Fingers crossed , she can soon sit in class with all the other youngsters just as she has always wanted . |