Example sentences of "him just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 2 | I was happy with him just as he was , without affectation . |
| 3 | It exploded inside him just as the last notes of his symphony died away . |
| 4 | Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen . |
| 5 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 6 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 7 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |
| 8 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 9 | The more he knew Sarah , the more he liked her , but he wondered if she saw him just as Anne 's sedate older brother , not part of the flirting casual crowd of her own age group as Terry was . |
| 10 | Isabel started to run towards him just as another block of stone came away from the wall , hurtling downwards . |
| 11 | He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her . |
| 12 | He mattered to Shelley very much — as a doctor and as a person , and she could n't bear to think of him losing that precious heart to this young girl , who regarded him just as someone to pay her bills . |
| 13 | The sergeant came to a halt outside the adjutant 's hut , and an out-of-breath Charlie caught up with him just as the door was opened by a colour-sergeant who turned to Charlie and said , ‘ Stand to attention , lad , remain one pace behind me and do n't speak unless you 're spoken to . |