Example sentences of "they [verb] just [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 2 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |
| 3 | They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time . |
| 4 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 5 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 6 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 7 | They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them . |