Example sentences of "just [vb pp] to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 2 | Nowadays , the printing is not just confined to the head of the paper . |
| 3 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 4 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 5 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 6 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 7 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |
| 8 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 9 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 10 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 11 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 12 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 13 | And she 'd only just gone to the end of the road to phone Ken was working away . |
| 14 | One by one they have just sunk to the bottom of the tank without any sign of ill health . |
| 15 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 16 | Right that 's just determined to the level at which I can go at this stage then . |
| 17 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 18 | It was de Kruif who in 1919 , as a young PhD just returned to the University of Michigan after two years at war , decided on a career that would make more money for himself and his future wife than what he called ‘ microbe hunting ’ . |
| 19 | They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out . |
| 20 | Although you might not know it , some of modern popular music 's most cherished players have just returned to the States after a dismal British tour . |