Example sentences of "just [conj] they [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting with Oracle Financials , it means to tune its hardware , architecture and operating system to optimise software performance just like they did in the ‘ good ole days ’ but without threatening the customer with a proprietary hammerlock . |
| 2 | People are not benighted and narrow and dogmatic just because they live in the Outer Hebrides or Gedney Drove End . |
| 3 | Things like this are always hurtful but I hope that people will have faith just as they have in the resurrection of Jesus . |
| 4 | Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests . |
| 5 | As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 . |
| 6 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 7 | ‘ It is here , in Ralarth , that the thing begins — here that the main characters come from , just as they did in the book . |
| 8 | Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild . |