Example sentences of "just as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here irrelevant to decide whether the Roman generals learnt how to cry from their Hellenistic opposite numbers just as they learnt from them how to write autobiographical letters on their victories . |
| 2 | Just as they defy access , they defy organization by outsiders . |
| 3 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 4 | It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were . |
| 5 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 6 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 7 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 8 | Just as they got to Benina airfield , Lilley shouted out that there was trouble ahead — a sting of red lights across the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Grimwood reports Newman did arrive and spoilt their act just as they 'd got Lennox to agree to sign . |
| 10 | Just as they reached the top and comparative safety , Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out . |
| 11 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 12 | It must be stressed that after a certain time has elapsed , individuals will interact with the researcher just as they will with anyone else , notwithstanding the possible inhibiting effect of recording equipment . |
| 13 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 14 | There are hundreds of arcades in London , and people become addicted to these machines just as they become addicted to drugs . |
| 15 | Just as they clean up all the trash and litter , they also clean up the earth and the sky , transmogrifying cars , turning tools , parts , weapons , bolts into carbon and iron . |
| 16 | Just as they finished Tony appeared . |
| 17 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 18 | Aha , just as they thought , and they have kept a lookout for movement , a flash that reveals the enemy position . |
| 19 | It 's putting a power into the hands of faceless Directors , picked by the Government , just as they pick their friends to head up the privatised National Industries . |
| 20 | Just as they planned , the couple set upon the unfortunate woman the following day , and beat her to death before pushing her body into the shallow pool . |
| 21 | Probably Tom 's fellow commuters sincerely enjoyed their Sunday morning Martinis , just as they enjoyed shining the tail-fins and chrome of the Plymouth and cutting their grass with power mowers ( power mower sales quadrupled ) . |
| 22 | Anger is ignored as much as possible , as with angry children , but when it becomes too manifest , people physically remove themselves , just as they flee from outsiders . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 24 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 25 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 26 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 27 | Joe steals two bus tickets to Miami , but Ratso dies just as they reach the place of his dreams . |
| 28 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 29 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 30 | She also mentions that they are aware of our love and concern , and asks us to keep praying , just as they remember us in their prayers . |