Example sentences of "[was/were] just as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything was just as it should be . |
| 2 | The telephone was just as it should be , with no bugging device to turn his private conversations into public knowledge . |
| 3 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Curator Steven Dyke said : ‘ This building is so authentic because it was just as it was in 1842 . |