Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS week , as the royals entered another tortured phase , it became clear just who is responsible for the disintegration of their family . |
| 2 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 3 | AT LAST it 's here — the God-forsaken rumble the world 's been waiting for ever since it became clear just how deadly a live phenomenon the Rolins Band are . |
| 4 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 5 | Mallachy , dark-faced and obvious , grumbled obscenely just below his breath . |
| 6 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Melissa 's mouth sagged open just a little and Robyn 's smile was pure satisfaction . |
| 8 | They hesitated , looked at each other a bit sheepishly and Bill songed away Just a Little Less Harder Than Before . |
| 9 | They waded ashore just below their lonely hut . |
| 10 | The Queen had already heard rumours about the couple 's problems — but it really sank home just a year ago when Sarah asked if she could talk to her about ‘ a very personal matter ’ . |
| 11 | She stopped short just inside the kitchen door , startled and alarmed to see such a change in Elizabeth . |
| 12 | Fortunately for Boro , Charlton were off target before Paul Wilkinson headed wide just before the break . |
| 13 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
| 14 | But regionalism in this ‘ everything and nothing ’ sense is not just a territorial dimension to central policy-making ; like planning , regionalism could not he regarded as just one policy among many but rather , in principle , as meta-policy , the implicit or explicit framework for other interventionist policies . |
| 15 | I have heard my own favourite , Alchemilla mollis a useful hardy gap-filler , described as just that by a fellow gardener . |
| 16 | They was taken before , I was five , across , we move , he moved here just across the , across the road , not far only just matter going over from one side to the other and I was five there , so now I 'm sixty seven now and that before then , you see , before I was born . |
| 17 | Shrewsbury rallied briefly just before half time . |
| 18 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 19 | Yes , we 'd better just approve the minutes of the meeting process , of the last meeting first of all , had n't we lads ? |
| 20 | Danny it 's just occurred to me because we 're tape recording we 'd better just stop print just at the moment , we 'll just leave that off line we can do it later . |
| 21 | Oh I 'd better just er . |
| 22 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 23 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 24 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 25 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 26 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 27 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 28 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 30 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |