Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market .
2 Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow .
3 The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig .
4 I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here .
5 The peasants , having just come out to the fields , turn back , uttering loud cries .
6 His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia .
7 I 've only just got back to the UK ’ He looked around him .
8 ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage .
9 There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains .
10 stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and .
11 They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane .
12 Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace .
13 having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on .
14 The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark .
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