Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the truth is she needs them just as much . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 5 | What is more , God loves them just as much as he loves you , and he wants YOU to show them his love . |
| 6 | But owner John Panteli , 17 , from Croydon , South London , loves it just as much . |
| 7 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 8 | ‘ I found it just as nippy as my car , despite the smaller engine , ’ she told me . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll have given it for someone else who needs it just as badly , ’ Belinda finished for him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And maybe she could do them just as well in America . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm loving it just as much even down to the research . |
| 15 | Irish men — and women — not a few of them , but Cara had been long enough in Frizingley to know that the Irish had no monopoly on starvation , that good , solid Englishmen , handloom weavers , for instance , on the tramp for work and farm labourers from the south who had lost their farms due to land enclosures , could do it just as easily . |
| 16 | But I think a more modest aim would make you just as happy , just as satisfied . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | With surprising strength he jerked Isabel forward , releasing her just as abruptly . |
| 19 | And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown . |
| 20 | Having tried bran flakes you might well find that you like them just as much as ordinary cornflakes . |
| 21 | She rather patronized him , but he was impervious to that ; it amused him — he was not unsubtle , Mr James says , but did n't bother to show it — he was amused by her American independence which served him just as well as Italian docility . |
| 22 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 23 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 24 | ‘ Though I expect you frightened him just as much . |
| 25 | And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well . |
| 26 | Natural parents find it just as hard to understand and meet the needs of their adolescent children . |
| 27 | And they 're doing it just as well , if not better . |
| 28 | When the bomber surfaces , is n't the weight of the remaining wing and its two engines going to tilt it just as far in the other direction ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And close them just as quickly . |
| 30 | 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 . |