Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joining in meant she could lose herself , forget , live for the moment just as Mark had always done — Oh , he had been a little wild on occasions , she knew that deep down , but Mark , being Mark , things had always turned out OK in the end … until that last time , of course … |
| 2 | In insisting on the fact that science starts with problems , then , is it not the case that , for the falsificationist just as for the naive inductivist , science starts from observation ? |
| 3 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 4 | An individual will go through the process just as we have outlined it already . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 6 | The specimen was taken from the eastern side of the sandbar just as the tide began to ebb and came the day after Kevin had taken a 2 lb 8 oz flounder from the same spot . |
| 7 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 8 | About one-third of freight was moved by rail in the USA , and Bush justified the legislation stopping the strike by the need to avoid a " serious disruption " of the economy just as it was " trying to turn around and get out of this recession " . |
| 9 | Er if you catch the corner of the bannister just as you 're going by , usually have a wrapper over anyway , but i it it is n't going to damage . |
| 10 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 11 | A yellow line of electric light shone below the door just as he reached it , and his heart jumped ; he stepped back quickly as the handle turned . |
| 12 | God keep you , Solper , ’ he muttered and went towards the door just as Fitzosbert threw it open . |
| 13 | He was walking towards the door just as Rose came bustling out . |
| 14 | Dr Graham was , as you might expect , most eloquent and , when he appealed for people to come forward and dedicate themselves , quite a few got up and went towards the screen just as though he was really there . |
| 15 | The Nun 's Priest therefore emerges from his tale as a character — a character who adopts an amusing persona as the teller of a tale just as Chaucer does in his narrator-pilgrim " Chaucer " . |
| 16 | He stood it beneath the skylight just as he heard footsteps pounding up the stairs . |
| 17 | Patrick braced his head against the rest just as the crash came . |
| 18 | The bookcase may be useful as a bookcase just as the essay once written may contain useful understanding and knowledge . |
| 19 | It must be stressed that after a certain time has elapsed , individuals will interact with the researcher just as they will with anyone else , notwithstanding the possible inhibiting effect of recording equipment . |
| 20 | I dashed into a record shop , begged a loan of the album , transferred it onto cassette in Dixon 's next door , sped back to the hall and managed to shove it into the system just as the chairman announced it and the audience was standing . |
| 21 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 22 | Now the sky grew nearly as black as night , and I galloped into the hotel just as the most torrential downpour I have seen in my life cascaded from the sky as the waters of the Red Sea might have descended on Pharaoh . |
| 23 | And he pushed him into the shed just as light filled the yard again . |
| 24 | Paul Lane came into the room just as he had finished telephoning Laetitia . |
| 25 | Agnes asked herself , and she thought : When we thrust out into the world just as we are , we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice , with that accident organized by the divine computer : to get over our surprise that precisely this ( what we see facing us in the mirror ) is our self . |
| 26 | It bumped into the bank just as Kate pulled the cork from the bottle . |
| 27 | We can be locked into the ritual just as we become locked into a dance sequence once we have entered upon it . |
| 28 | The last of the cuirassiers were driven from the village just as darkness fell , leaving a thousand corpses and a heap of rubble to the French as the fruits of victory . |
| 29 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
| 30 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |