Example sentences of "who [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 2 | LAPSY PAVA : Person who lives just outside Munich who breeds ferrets . |
| 3 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 4 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 5 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 6 | This young lady , Mr Bodenland , is the product of the union of two of the great minds of our time , the philosopher , William Godwin , and Mary Wollstonecraft , one of the great philosopical female minds to rank with my friend , Madame de Stael — who lives just across the lake , as you may know . |
| 7 | ‘ They think she 's broken her back , ’ said Mr Harrison , who lives just 100 yards away from Paula 's home with the Hutchinsons . |
| 8 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 9 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 10 | A young Abyssinian , returning to camp with a victim 's testicle hanging from his belt , he compared to ‘ a deserving young Etonian who has just got his colours for cricket . ’ |
| 11 | Genet uses the blacks , the way a man who has just emptied his revolver reaches for the knife at his side ’ ( ‘ The Revenge of Jean Genet ’ , 175 ) . |
| 12 | By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector . |
| 13 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 14 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 15 | The women 's world squash champion , Martine Le Moignan , and Jack Simmons , who has just retired from playing cricket for Lancashire at the age of 48 , receive the MBE . |
| 16 | Bristow , who has just regained the world No.1 ranking and was chasing a fifth title , lost 3-1 . |
| 17 | Neither Mr Bush nor James Baker , his secretary of state ( who talks about Lithuania and Latvia with the visible enthusiasm of someone who has just sucked a lemon ) , can yet bring himself to think anything but the best of Mr Gorbachev , so helpful last year in Europe , so kind this year in the Gulf . |
| 18 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 19 | At the very end of the movie Phar Lap a newspaper reporter in Australia seeks out trainer Harry Telford , who has just received news of the horse 's tragic end . |
| 20 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 21 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 22 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 23 | VOLCANO by Shusaku Endo Sceptre , £4.99 JINPEI SUDA , a Japanese seismologist who has just retired , is convinced that the volcano Akadake , his obsession throughout his career , is dormant ; but Durand , a defrocked French Catholic priest , believes the volcano will erupt and sweep away the new Christian retreat being built on its slopes , as a sign of divine displeasure with Japan . |
| 24 | Property : The man who defies the market Tom Rowland meets the bullish City financier who has just bought Crosby Hall in Chelsea |
| 25 | Such is the charisma of a man who has just had seven weeks off following an operation on an old knee injury and has played only two tournaments . |
| 26 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 27 | It was no secret that Mrs Thatcher was unenthusiastic about the appointment in 1983 of Mr Bernard Weatherill , who has just retired . |
| 28 | Robyn turns to face a man who has just entered the shop : tall , heavily built , with bushy sideboards and moustache , a sheepskin coat open over his three-piece suit . |
| 29 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | I drove into the mouth of a carnivorous wave with the reckless abandon of a man who has just been given a week to live . |