Example sentences of "had just [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even that respected organ The Practitioner , in a recent special issue ( 1983 , col 227 , No 1375 ) devoted to psychiatry and matters of the mind , had just a single word concerning this most widespread , of all medical phenomena .
2 She added : ‘ Police had just a few minutes to evacuate thousands of people . ’
3 Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation .
4 And she had never needed Josey 's encouragement more than she had just a matter of a few short weeks ago .
5 The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston .
6 His living room had just a couple of chairs and a radio set and some books .
7 She had just a minute or two to collect herself before Nicolo returned .
8 Had just the stuff in the shed .
9 After all , he had just the man on his staff .
10 But Kylie had just the right look and style and character .
11 Seve had just the right sort of build-up to the 1979 Open at Lytham : he won the English Classic at The Belfry , the first time it was played , and then he came second in the Scandinavian Open in Sweden .
12 He picked out the small nematode that had just the right characteristics , and single-handed , he established a thriving field from scratch .
13 The pens had the ordinary steel nibs and it was essential that they had just the right amount of ink on them or blots resulted .
14 They had just the one son , Cecil , but four daughters , Ella , Connie , Rance and Muriel .
15 My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year .
16 AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met .
17 She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk !
18 You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the
19 Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing .
20 If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence .
21 I wondered if he had just the one broker .
22 haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control …
23 Well , hang on , we 've got one pizza shared out between four people , right , erm how many pizzas would you go , you think that was just right that , that was wonderful , we all had just the right amount of pizza , when we had a quarter , when we had one shared between the four of us
24 erm He had just the qualities that he advocated .
25 On Saturday morning the gates were closed early with thousands locked out , only for the whole day to be lost to the weather ; had just an hour or two 's play been possible there would almost certainly have been a result .
26 And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council .
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