Example sentences of "[pers pn] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 2 | But the truth is she needs them just as much . |
| 3 | What is more , God loves them just as much as he loves you , and he wants YOU to show them his love . |
| 4 | Having tried bran flakes you might well find that you like them just as much as ordinary cornflakes . |
| 5 | ‘ And close them just as quickly . |
| 6 | Many administrative institutions possess qualifications which render them just as capable of giving conclusive judgments on legal issues as are the inferior courts . |
| 7 | And maybe she could do them just as well in America . |
| 8 | She slept with boys ( and men — some lecturers , too , fell by her wayside ) as if it were the most natural thing in the world ( ‘ indeed it is , it is ! ’ ) , then dropped them just as casually in the morning with a smile of disbelief that they should expect anything more of her , or any other woman . |
| 9 | The gun is loud enough to frighten them just as much ; but , calm , surgical thing that it is , it improves your chance of a first-time kill . |
| 10 | Foreign offices were affected by them just as much as service abroad . |
| 11 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 12 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 13 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 14 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 15 | But I need n't have worried , she came to me just as smoothly as before , and I flew her half a dozen times a session over the next four days . |
| 16 | She said , ‘ I think you would probably have scolded me just as hard , Mr Langley , ’ and then she gathered up her handbag and rose to her feet . |
| 17 | I might not ask again until it was too late ; my native caution would betray me just as effectively as Arsenio and Osvaldo 's natural daring had subverted their judge-ment . |
| 18 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
| 19 | My cover 's blown ; that woman 's ruined everything for me just as sure as if she was standing next to me dribbling down her front and complaining about ration books . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not just winning the fight , it 's how you do it , the style is just as important and wins you just as many points , ’ says Glenn . |
| 21 | ‘ No , your mother is right , you want to be with your friends on a day like this , and the best of luck to you , son , may it turn out for you just as well as you ever hoped . |
| 22 | But I think a more modest aim would make you just as happy , just as satisfied . |
| 23 | For an instant Alyssia felt a rush of jealousy , which she just as quickly stamped on . |
| 24 | Peeping up at him , she just as quickly looked away when she saw the devilry in his eyes . |
| 25 | The distinction , though convenient for us at the moment , is not absolute , and just as we can not communicate with only the rules of semantics and grammar , so we just as surely can not communicate very well without them . |
| 26 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 27 | that to find out that you shopped them they just as liable to put a brick through your window , or belt you one , or damage your car next time they see it . |
| 28 | It is more likely to increase his anger and feelings of rejection , just when what he needs is reassurance that you will still love him just as much . |
| 29 | Yes , I told the King of imminent danger but , given the way he charged round his kingdom in the dead of night , even the court fool could have warned him just as accurately . ’ |
| 30 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |