Example sentences of "but [pron] was just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just as desperate , as grief-stricken as Jinny had imagined . |
| 2 | She might not have been as glamorous as the great vessels loaded with equally glamorous cargo , but she was just as important in her own way . |
| 3 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 4 | Oh , it was a battle , and no mistake , thought Sally-Anne ; it was almost like playing against Papa — only Dr Neil played more slowly ; but he was just as cunning . |
| 5 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 6 | This was the greatest test for surfers , but it was just as much of an ordeal for journalists . |
| 7 | But it was just as exciting , nevertheless . |
| 8 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 9 | As they passed the stone pillars , Robbie took a fleeting wistful glance at her dream house , but it was just as well , she told herself firmly , that she was not to enter it again . |