Example sentences of "just as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST AS I LOATHE THE WORD ‘ WORKSHOP ’ , I FEEL QUEASY WHEN PLACES include the word ‘ centre ’ . |
| 2 | I like to take care of my staff , just as I intend to take care of my wife — if the one I love will marry me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I know 't is my brother you really wish to see — just as I know I must call you my lady Anne ! ’ |
| 4 | The party 's powerful Senate minority leader , Bob Dole , had just told Bush : ‘ Just as I know you 've changed the world , I also know the best man did n't win . ’ |
| 5 | I love my unborn baby deeply , just as I know other teenage mothers do . |
| 6 | ‘ Just as I know you sent that poison pen letter . |
| 7 | He left the rest of the phrase unfinished , rose from his chair , and added , ‘ I know my way out , just as I know my way in . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes , just as I drifting off to sleep , I can see Dan Rogers running the length of the pitch to slip the ball past Bob Wilson , or Allan Clarke 's diving header past Geoff Barnett in 1972 , or Willie Young presenting Ipswich Town 's Roger Osborne with an unmissable chance in 1978 , or Nigel Winterburn 's penalty miss ten years later , or Seaman palming Lineker 's cross-shot into the corner of the net in last year 's semi-final . |
| 9 | Gary , too , had a lot of my dad in him , just as I resembled Doug , the son . |
| 10 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 11 | Just as I like it . |
| 12 | And some silly woman crashed her tray to the floor just as I made my second entrance — disgraceful ! ’ |
| 13 | Sampson feels ‘ a very great aversion ’ to Slinkton as soon as he sees him : ‘ His hair , which was elaborately brushed and oiled , was parted straight up the middle ; and he presented this parting to the clerk , exactly … as if he had said , in so many words : ‘ You must take me , if you please , my friend , just as I show myself . |
| 14 | And now he 's gone , and I 've lost him forever , just as I deserve . |
| 15 | ‘ Because he has nothing on his conscience , ’ Daalny snapped triumphantly , ‘ just as I said . ’ |
| 16 | He tripped over his own wings , just as I said . " |
| 17 | just as I said , ’ Ward murmured , no trace of an accent as we collected our baggage . |
| 18 | ‘ So , ’ she went on , fighting to maintain a cold , level rhythm in her words , ‘ I came to Woodline to learn what kind of man you were , just as I said . |
| 19 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
| 20 | Just as I left the station for the bus stop , the siren went . |
| 21 | And then just as I left the stage , sobbing , I heard somebody say , ‘ Well , I do n't admire her dress-sense . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ London is just as I left it , ’ railed Audubon resentfully to his friend , the Reverend Bachman , ‘ a Vast Artificial area , as well covered with humbug , as are our Fine Lands and old fields with Broom grass . |
| 23 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 24 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 28 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 29 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 30 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |