Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would inflict special damage on a person who had just posted a business letter the purpose of which would be defeated by any exceptional delay . |
| 2 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 3 | Probably the most useful indicator on a shoot is the one which shows whether or not you are actually recording pictures — it 's easy to forget whether you have just pressed the camera control on or off ! |
| 4 | I should have just pressed the erase button . ’ |
| 5 | REBECCA Stephens may have just conquered the world 's tallest mountain — but she insisted last night she had no plans to end her climbing career on a high note . |
| 6 | And he was out there for about three years , he come back home and of cou just travelled the country , again working on the farms and that . |
| 7 | ‘ Call the newspapers , ’ she croaked , ‘ I 've just broken every bloody speed record in swimming . |
| 8 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 9 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 10 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 11 | I 've just broken the record for writing more books than any English author has ever done . |
| 12 | He had just broken the news to them about Philpott . |
| 13 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 14 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 15 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 16 | I goes ah just broken the indicator lens and a few other little bitties . |
| 17 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 18 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 19 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 20 | He 's just given a couple of experimental tugs on the lifting slings and he reckons the bomber , with the help of the flotation bags , of course , is nearing a state of neutral buoyancy . |
| 21 | Having just given a lot of money back . |
| 22 | This works slightly differently from the one Kev 's suggesting , coz we did n't have to go through auctions and all that , we were just given a list of players with their prices , and given 20 million to spend . |
| 23 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 24 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 25 | Cleaning may consist of a quick dust or ‘ whip round ’ for the harassed housewife , and to some eyes at least it will still look as though the house has been cleaned — hence the expression ‘ eye service ’ ( 'I 've just given the house eye service today' ) . |
| 26 | English National Opera has just given the world premiere of Robin Holloway 's Clarissa , after the Richardson novel , while next month the Almeida Festival will introduce The Intelligence Park by the Irish composer Gerald Barry , one of the most distinctive and exciting of the younger Europeans . |
| 27 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around . |
| 29 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |
| 30 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |