Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] just [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 2 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 3 | At first the Palace asked for just a thousand exclusive ties to be made . |
| 4 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 5 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 6 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 7 | Looks like just a test strip . |
| 8 | A complete feeling of misery swept over Robyn , mixed with just a hint of panic , as she really began to despair that she had read her own instructions correctly and would never reach the barn or even civilisation again . |
| 9 | Thus the GSM pre-filter which it is claimed with just a litre of Siporax will not just filter , but perform complete filtration for 20 fish 12″ long , and with room for three litres will filter to 70 fish 12″ long . |
| 10 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 11 | He told Mr Maclean : ‘ It is unacceptable that one quarter of the annual authorisation of particular radio nucleids should be discharged in just a 24-hour period . |
| 12 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 13 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 15 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 16 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 17 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 18 | Indeed , in the best of all possible media worlds , all rapes and sexual assaults would be committed by just a few sexual maniacs and the press could then help to orchestrate the national search against these declared aliens in our midst . |
| 19 | However , only one in nine households is ‘ typical ’ , most consisting of just a man and a woman . |
| 20 | ‘ Charlotte can think of just a handful of resorts that offer the best skiing for all standards … ’ etc . |
| 21 | As they speed towards a moving insect , the pitch of their cries is constantly changing , continuously hunting for just the pitch needed to keep the returning echoes at a fixed pitch . |
| 22 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 23 | Ireland now face defending champions Scotland this morning with the Scots looking for just a draw to retain their title . |
| 24 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 25 | And then we used to trim it and er a hat there made of just the straw with a band and bow was over three pound which was a lot of money in those days . |
| 26 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 27 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 28 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 29 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 30 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |