Example sentences of "[was/were] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 2 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 3 | The idea of biology having important lessons for control is not new , but in this case the Sheffield group would have the willing and enthusiastic support of two control engineers — Harry Nicholson and Vince Femando — who were just as excited about the prospects for collaboration as their new biological colleagues . |
| 4 | ‘ It was great , the letters were just as they were when we received them . ’ |
| 5 | You never could tell with Felipe de Santis and at the moment things were just as he wanted them . |
| 6 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 7 | This was just as the amateurs of the FA thought it should be . |
| 8 | It was just as Joe had been telling her all her life . |
| 9 | Everything was just as it should be . |
| 10 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
| 11 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 12 | It was just as Elizabeth had expected . |
| 13 | Her faithful shadow , a Yorkshire terrier called Heathcliffe , was just as confused ; and the time that we had arranged to meet for lunch was fast approaching . |
| 14 | I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature . |
| 15 | The telephone was just as it should be , with no bugging device to turn his private conversations into public knowledge . |
| 16 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
| 17 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 20 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 21 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 22 | It was just as the two women were leaving that the pandemonium started . |
| 23 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 24 | Creamstick 's house was just as I 'd pictured : |
| 25 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 26 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 27 | He could see the end coming , and it was just as she 'd said ; the friends he 'd made and lost , and the women that he wished he 'd known better . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 30 | But it was just as she 'd expected . |