Example sentences of "just as [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 2 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 3 | Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s , just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades . |
| 4 | Just as she had imagined that concerned endearment after the fight on the riverbank . |
| 5 | Just as she had to accept that , for her , it would never be enough . |