Example sentences of "[adv] just [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think since we 've got some new people here , I 'll , I 'll perhaps just say a little bit about the group shall I , just to explain how we operate and erm and also how this meeting is going to operate erm . |
| 2 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 3 | I think he was brought in just to do a good production job . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 5 | He saw the half-dressed models then , and quickly walked away , only just taking a deep breath in time as he walked out from the cover of the parked car . |
| 6 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
| 7 | Another approach ignores syntactic processing and instead concentrates on just using a semantic grammar ( e.g. the PLANES system ( Waltz , 1978 ) ) . |
| 8 | Just just have a quick look at it . |
| 9 | This is an odd remark , because , when auditors refer to the company as ‘ the client ’ they are not just using a loose colloquialism , they are being legally precise ; the company is the client . |
| 10 | They 're not just holding a private function . |
| 11 | Remember that you want to influence the group , not just win a two-way battle . |
| 12 | The marriage of Anne and Tim does not just have a personal significance for them . |
| 13 | The purpose is to check that you are not just having a prolonged holiday but are actually living as a resident abroad . |
| 14 | But Aristotle is not just making a sociological point about what is and is not permitted to women in his society . |
| 15 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 16 | For Italian Vogue he dyed the skin of Linda Evangelista nearly black and painted Rachel Williams silver not just to produce a great photograph ( although he has produced many ) , but to synthesise a vision of fashion that is more significant than showing clothes . |
| 17 | But legal proceedings are often brought for a variety of reasons : not just to obtain a favourable outcome , but also in order , for example , to obtain publicity or to force a reconsideration of a contentious decision or policy or as a bargaining tactic . |
| 18 | And I think an over sixty no matter who they are , they would still just have a small return . |
| 19 | If you can not manage anything , you can always just enjoy a short break and plan a date and a strategy for the return to your exercise routine . |
| 20 | Somebody , somewhere , has probably just telephoned an old friend by mistake . |
| 21 | No you 're probably just need a little whatsname . |
| 22 | Most probably just want an inexpensive look at a bit of ‘ typical Greece ’ not far from Athens : the working waterfront , with fishing boats moored alongside the rich tourists ' yachts ; some amiable villages up handsome valleys ; a quick taste of that Aegean simplicity of water , bare rock and sky . |
| 23 | Opera North has also just unveiled a new Britten staging : Peter Grimes , directed by Ronald Eyre and with John Treleaven as the visionary Suffolk fisherman . |
| 24 | He 's also just chaired a Select Committee on MPs ' working hours , which frequently collide head on with the following day . |
| 25 | He has also just achieved a Brown Belt in Judo . |
| 26 | Somebody 's slipped over and they 've got all the grit in their knuckles in the part of their knuckles and you want to bandage the hand or there 's a cut on the hand , even on the palm , we can do that one later when it 's really , when it 's really a gash , gushing blood we can do this afternoon , I repeat again none of these which you 've done this morning will control severe bleeding , get it into your heads this is just to cover to keep infection out , alright , these are not to control severe bleeding just covering a minor wound or a graze , right ? |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah , both coming back , now just had a bald patch . |
| 28 | Now just having a little look in the paper here today and er well oh the Mary Whitehouse saga continues by the way we are absolutely determined to get her on before the end of the show we 've got ten minutes left . |
| 29 | Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . |
| 30 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |