Example sentences of "[vb base] just [vb pp] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I face people when I must look as if I 've just gone ten rounds with an all-in wrestler ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 3 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 4 | And who do you turn to for compensation if you 've just spent two hours in an eight-mile tailback on the A1 ? . |
| 5 | But I ca n't I find it hard to explain why the after such a good performance against West Ham , But you know , it 's just all over , be saying that about his side second half now wo n't he , because they 've just put one point about a nine , and they 're a good side . |
| 6 | She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’ |
| 7 | product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well . |
| 8 | So we 've just got one book in the whole building . |
| 9 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 10 | So I 've just got ten records on this file and I say those words carefully because you 've got ta distinguish between record , file and field . |
| 11 | You have just seen three adverts for coffee , a new car and a new kitchen gadget . |
| 12 | I have just indicated one way in which criticism centred on the theory dependence of observation can be to some extent evaded by the inductivists , and I am convinced that they will be able to think of further ingenious defences . |
| 13 | you have just wasted ten minutes of that lesson , wandering round . |
| 14 | Ian Franchi , of Britain 's Open University , and his colleagues have just spent three weeks on crampons and skidoos , combing the ice sheet for these itinerant boulders . |
| 15 | ‘ It does not matter if you are the world champion or a top-ranking player or if you have just won two tournaments in a row . |