Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 2 | Helped by a couple of purchases north of the Border , the chain has grown from 130 at the beginning of 1992 to 209 now , with operating profits leaping from just £700,000 in 1991 to £4.9 million last year . |
| 3 | The complexity of tenancies and sub-tenancies relating to just one house or building in the urban context , together with a flavour of the experiences of working class tenants at the turn of the century , can be gained from the following extract . |
| 4 | But operating profits improved in the second half and the company can take some credit for the reduction in gearing to just 5 p.c . |
| 5 | Dr Michael Turega , of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology , has worked with a casualty ward consultant to produce a desk-top computer consisting of just 35 ‘ brain cells ’ to give reliable diagnosis of chest pain in patients . |
| 6 | By October 1986 the local press was describing the fleet as consisting of just 40 boats . |
| 7 | A maze consisting of just three such junctions would have — well , hundred and hundreds of routes . |
| 8 | For instance , no single node can recognise the class of images consisting of just one dot anywhere on the retina . |
| 9 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 10 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 11 | The competitions started with the British Men 's Open — 70 hopefuls looking for just 20 places in the next round . |
| 12 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 13 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 14 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 15 | A test rig measuring wind strength on a hillside near Nymphsfield in Gloucestershire , operating for just 3 weeks , has already recorded gusts of up to 40 mph . |
| 16 | Head-and-neck photos of Nessie , he says , look remarkably like pictures of African elephants swimming with just their trunks above water . |
| 17 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 18 | So you 've got to get used to advocating with just an ordinary table , and how do you do that ? |
| 19 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 20 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
| 21 | Ta very mooch again for the book & tape ( which I 'm listening to just now & it 's fab . ) |
| 22 | As an illustration of what I mean , two years ago I was a member of an IBM audience listening to just such a presentation from an " expert " from another well known company in the electronics industry . |
| 23 | There 's still some who want the shrieking , whirling dervish of the old Associates days and refuse to give him any credit for growing up and wanting to just get on with it . |
| 24 | Living at just the right distance from things is impossible cos one had to move about in order to know where one is — the principle of 2 or more radar points plotting the position of an object . |
| 25 | ‘ Who would have believed that Haagen-Dazs could build a market for a product retailing at just under £3 per tub with a name that meant nothing , with understated quirky packaging in a country where a major recession was started to bite ? |
| 26 | She thought she was peaking at just the right time for her battle of the sexes match with Jimmy Connors scheduled for Las Vegas on September 24 with a 500,000 dollar first prize . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if you wanted to buy a clone PC capable of handling Quark — say a Dell 66MHz 486 with 8Mb of RAM and a 200Mb hard disk — you 're looking at just over £2,000 ! |
| 28 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 29 | I thought I recognised er the look of the film you were looking at just now |
| 30 | Continue through two gates , heading for just left of the farm on the skyline . |