Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] just as " in BNC.
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1 | I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |
4 | It was her family that were changing , she thought : she was just as she had always been . |
5 | Everything was just as it should be . |
6 | Otherwise everything was just as he remembered , even the faded yellow curtains decorated with turquoise flowers and green leaves : a relic of the 1960s . |
7 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
8 | They were just as I remembered them . |
9 | It was just as Joe had been telling her all her life . |
10 | It was just as I had arranged , word for word . |
11 | It was just as Elizabeth had expected . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It was just as the two women were leaving that the pandemonium started . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | But it was just as she 'd expected . |
19 | You remember — it was just as the Newleys were leaving . ’ |
20 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
21 | It was just as she had dreamed in her dreams it would be — a blissful sensation that shot down to her toes and sent her blood , like fiery rapids , exploding through her veins . |
22 | As a silent duet it was just as haunting . |
23 | Curator Steven Dyke said : ‘ This building is so authentic because it was just as it was in 1842 . |
24 | So it was just as Gabriel said , thought Coffin . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ And last night when you spoke to him he was just as usual ? ’ |