Example sentences of "only [verb] just " in BNC.
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1 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
2 | Although his party only won just over half of Labour 's national share of the vote , he crowned himself moral leader of the opposition the moment the election was over . |
3 | And all of them can only do just carry on , the money 's not there , it 's not there is it ? |
4 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
5 | The once fine linen had thinned and shrunk with frequent laundering , with the result that the garment only reached just past her knees and did little to hide the curves of her body . |
6 | In a world in which voters place health at the top of their concerns , the UK is still only spending just over 6% compared with 7% plus by Belgium , Finland , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , New Zealand , Norway , and Switzerland ; 8% plus by Australia , Austria , France , Germany , Iceland , Netherlands , and Sweden ; 9% plus by Canada ; and dear old USA on its own in the stratosphere with 12% plus . |
7 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
8 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
9 | The grim face , the extravagant salute and the loud stamp of his boots on the floorboards only fell just short of the military crime most disliked by superiors , dumb insolence . |
10 | Moon walked this section as if it were HVS , only to fail just below the top . |
11 | I thought you only had just normal goldfish in there |
12 | only begun just turned onto this page ! |
13 | Jim did say if I looked at mine , and I only have just looked at it er if I 've read the fig if I 've read the figures right and I |