Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 2 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |
| 3 | Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it . |
| 4 | I holds just under a pint , and with a rather handy little lid . |
| 5 | ‘ That new fuel blend of yours has just ensured that I 've had the most embarrassing drive of my life ! |
| 6 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 7 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 8 | Each week she receives just over £100 in benefits , but has only enough money left to feed her children after paying bills , a mortgage and housing repairs . |
| 9 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 10 | She wants just the plain white one ? |
| 11 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 12 | Her recent television credits include leads in the series Buccaneer , The Professionals , The Consultant , Into the Labyrinth , Lytton 's Diary , Magnum , Seagull Island , and her film credits include The First Great Train Robbery , The Bitch , Morecambe and Wise 's Night Train to Murder , Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again , Universal City , After Darkness , and she has just completed Salome , playing Herodias . |
| 13 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 14 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
| 15 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 16 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
| 17 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
| 18 | Although she spends most of her time in transit between one engagement and another , on arrival the destination often looks pretty like the place she has just left . |
| 19 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 20 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
| 21 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 22 | ‘ She has just telephoned . |
| 23 | Above right : Female C. managuense fans and two thousand-plus eggs she has just laid |
| 24 | She has just written a prayer letter and I quote from it . |
| 25 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 27 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 28 | She has just returned from interviewing rape victims in Bosnia during a nine-day mission led by the International League of Human Rights.While European Community officials estimate 20,000 women have been raped , Francoise Hampson says quantification is impossible . |
| 29 | She has just launched Starting Out — the real beginners ' workout and Fat Burning Workout — to help you burn off fat and lose weight . |
| 30 | She has just under £1 billion to spend and when she wants to go to the zoo she can chose between the two Christina and her husband Thierry bought for her . |