Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had to move them in a hurry when my people started going through the district and it was just intended as a temporary hiding-place . |
| 2 | there 's nothing wonderful about the cotton , but the cushions look absolutely superb because there were just thin lines of the , you can tell it was when you looked at it quite cheap ribbon but just arranged in a beautiful square and then a little bit of lace . |
| 3 | I feel I 'm just regarded as a neurotic woman I 've been told that by Mr I 've found that is was very yes I have do n't deny it . |
| 4 | On March 10 Gustav Just resigned as a Social Democrat ( SPD ) deputy in the Brandenburg parliament after admitting that he had participated in the execution by firing squad of six Ukrainian Jews in July 1941 . |
| 5 | I 'm sure they 'll hasten to say , not reduced , just done in a different way , but shall I ask |
| 6 | If you 've just moved to a new area a good way to break the ice for you and your child is a parent and toddler group . |
| 7 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 8 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 9 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 10 | He 's just moved into a new house you know |
| 11 | I 've just moved into a new flat , I do n't have a telephone . |
| 12 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 13 | Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford . |
| 14 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 15 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 16 | It was just seen as a normal part of the job then really . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a real system now , whereas in the past , squash was just seen as a public school sort of pastime . |
| 18 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 19 | So it 's just got in a bigger mess and a bigger mess to be honest with you . |
| 20 | How d " you always manage to look like you 've just escaped from a hair-pulling battle ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 23 | She had just slipped into a black taffeta skirt and was buttoning the front of her blouse when there was a knock on the door . |
| 24 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 25 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 26 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 27 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 28 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |
| 29 | When he came back , his face was so strained with worry that I felt the sting of another guilt , and I smiled properly ( having just finished with a not-too-terrible pain ) and put out my hand to him to show him I was better . |
| 30 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |