Example sentences of "to [pron] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Germans can provide this , we should be grateful to them just as the world ought to be grateful to us for having a zero line of longitude running constantly through Greenwich ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 3 | As I say , I 'll get it back to you just as soon as I 've managed to make a copy of it . ’ |
| 4 | He lay back by the open window with his eyes closed and the warm breathless air came to him just as in another cooler season heat fanned from the grid lower down the wall . |
| 5 | Something happened which always pleased him : his wife opened the front door to him just as he was about to put his key in the lock . |
| 6 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 7 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 8 | The cottage , their belongings , were their joint life , adorned and gave reality to it just as the bushes and flowers they had planted in the garden staked out their territory of trust . |
| 9 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |