Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] just as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 2 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 3 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 4 | True there was no weathered statue in the nave , nor a tomb or altar upon which I lay , but the stones were worn and the building was isolated just as my building was isolated . |
| 5 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |