Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 2 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 3 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 4 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 5 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 6 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 7 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 8 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 9 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 10 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 11 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 14 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 15 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 16 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 17 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 18 | ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle . |
| 19 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 20 | Pike was standing by a wooden rack of pamphlets , including What Has Old Mother Walsh to Say to Us ? and a large , colourful one for the kiddies entitled Daddy is n't Dead , He 's Just Gone Out for a Bit . |
| 21 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 22 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 23 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 24 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 25 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 26 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 27 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 28 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |
| 29 | But this is something else again , having socialist ideas is one thing , betraying your country another , people who do that have no rights at all , that 's my opinion , they ought to be just put up against a wall and shot . |
| 30 | And Anna Freud said , okay that 's what you called it , but supposing we had to look what you 've just described up in a dictionary , what word would be found ? |