Example sentences of "[vb past] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time . |
| 2 | Our third meal we ate while on duty — sometimes at 2 a.m. — in the huge cafeteria erected just outside the gates of the Park . |
| 3 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |
| 4 | The glasses were generous , so full that the surface of the wine trembled just above the rim . |
| 5 | AND Traidcraft have a slim catalogue devoted just to handmade and recycled papers . |
| 6 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 7 | She moved just inside the close , but he remained outside . |
| 8 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |
| 9 | So I walked beneath the trees and found just under my feet pieces of old concrete and what might once have been bits of wall . |
| 10 | Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i . |
| 11 | A total of 1,636 Garratts ran on eighty-six railways in forty-eight countries : of these , Beyer , Peacock built just over one thousand . |
| 12 | This was the site of Franco 's original workshops , built just below the house . |
| 13 | St Leonard 's is an early thirteenth century church , built just outside the walls of the abbey . |
| 14 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 15 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 16 | ‘ And built just like a jukebox , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 17 | The cat owners ' assessment of their health had returned to what they reported just before acquiring a feline friend , but dog owners continued to report improvements in their health and well being . |
| 18 | It stopped just outside my cell . |
| 19 | It stopped just outside the hole . |
| 20 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 21 | His face and hands were white and very wrinkled , but any signs of extreme age stopped just below his jawline and just above his wrists . |
| 22 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 23 | The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch . |
| 24 | Maxim stopped just inside the door to the public bar and looked around . |
| 25 | ‘ I stopped just behind you but before I could get out of the car you were well away . |
| 26 | He stopped just in time , teetering on the edge . |
| 27 | Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not |
| 28 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 29 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 30 | There , suspended just above the domes and minarets of the old city , a perfect silver crescent could be seen shining out over the rooftops . |