Example sentences of "just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 2 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 3 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 4 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 5 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 6 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 7 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 8 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 9 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 10 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 11 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 12 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 13 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 14 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 15 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 16 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 17 | You do n't turn the page over , just look over to the next column |
| 18 | ‘ So if you want to hear the most wretched sound ever invented , just look out for the next album … ! ’ |
| 19 | Er right , just going back to the actual er roadside interview , is that one on the the B road , or is it the A ? |
| 20 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 22 | Just pass on to the next decision . |
| 23 | The right-hand page lay still , and in the spine a few white petals lay , and a single hard bud of blackthorn , the white blossom just breaking out of the dark husk . |
| 24 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 25 | Caballeros and Bugner were just coming up onto the 18th green to prolonged applause from the huge crowd in the three grandstands . |
| 26 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 27 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 28 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 29 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 30 | New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams . |