Example sentences of "just as [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they got to Benina airfield , Lilley shouted out that there was trouble ahead — a sting of red lights across the road . |
| 2 | Such standards , which exclude the possibility of adultery and divorce , appear today to be impossibly hard , just as they did to Jesus ' disciples then . |
| 3 | Galway will obviously be keen to shake Kilkenny out of their stride in the early stages — just as they did to Tipperary , indeed . |
| 4 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 5 | Just as they appeared to be succeeding , former Mayor Dudley Aldridge has hinted he might stand as an indepedent Tory against Mr Taylor . |
| 6 | Middle class feminists also objected to this increasing ‘ officialism , police interference and espionage ’ , just as they objected to other aspects of state intervention in the working class family and to protective legislation for women workers . |
| 7 | Just as we got to the rotunda , a jazz band further up the street started to play . |
| 8 | Just as we got to the doors a voice said ‘ Full up . ’ |
| 9 | We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids . |
| 10 | It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics . |
| 11 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 12 | It began to matter to Philip that Richard was a ‘ natural ’ : just as it mattered to the boy himself . |
| 13 | After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day . |
| 14 | Just as I spoke to Moses . |
| 15 | He said , just as he had to both his other passengers : " Home for Christmas , eh ducks ? |
| 16 | Brief introductions were made and Porter explained about their last cell-mate , just as he had to the prison delegation . |
| 17 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 18 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 19 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 20 | Whatever it was , it was very tinkly and repetitive , and often , just as he seemed to be getting somewhere , Meredith broke off and started all over again . |
| 21 | Jesus will be presented as offering an invitation — just as he did to his disciples — an invitation freely given and freely accepted or rejected . |
| 22 | Reacting to him physically , just as she used to all those years ago . |