Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 2 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 3 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 4 | Now one in seven of all university applicants in the UK select Bristol among their choices , creating a situation in which 26,000 applications are now received for just over 2,000 places . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 6 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 7 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 8 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 9 | What 's more , the early EG models , which sold for just under £600 , did n't seem to have the feel or charisma of the Customs and Classics . |
| 10 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 11 | Robert Waller of Harris , owned by the American Gannett newspaper group , said political polls account for just 3 p.c. of turnover in non-election years , rising to 10 p.c. in the election year of 1987 . |
| 12 | Like Japan 's economic future , it does not depend on basic manufacturing : assembly costs account for just 5% of its sales . |
| 13 | The company admits that it is disappointed with its returns from Spain , which have so far produced sales which account for just 3% of its total European total : the company had expected 10–15% . |
| 14 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 15 | But because we , we sort of account for just our territory , it 's core territory , and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue , there 's an awful lot of accounts registered , so Jenny does n't get any , hardly any time at all to actually go off and , and do any cold calling or anything like that , it 's all B M S. |
| 16 | Yet even the most draconian measures would still have little effect on health-care inflation — because drugs account for just 7 per cent of all spending on patients . |
| 17 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 18 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 19 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 20 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 21 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 22 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 23 | First , a sample of 10 9 atoms is loaded into a magneto-optical trap , where they remain for just over 1 second . |
| 24 | Let us think about just one of these four chains . |
| 25 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 26 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 27 | Actually , I 've got a bit of cash , some policy I 'd forgotten about just realized , I was wondering what to do with it . |
| 28 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 29 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 30 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |