Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the implants had worked just fine , thank you . |
| 2 | Bora Mulitonovic 's side had won just once in their last 16 games and they had not scored for 389 minutes . |
| 3 | She was awfully fond of her husband , of course , but there was no denying that their own lovemaking had become just a little predictable . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister said Labour had devoted just 155 words in its last election manifesto to crime ‘ illustrating the depth of concern they give it ’ . |
| 5 | The sun had already lost its warmth and the light had faded just a little , giving the empty farmhouse and its ramshackle outbuildings a forlorn look . |
| 6 | So that every technician and every junior could hear him , Boll had enquired just how much longer before his present project would be completed , how much later than it was already . |
| 7 | Gould had escaped just in time : a week after his departure a deluge of rain hit the Namoi plains , and the flash-flood that followed wrought havoc on the countryside . |
| 8 | But was it not possible that Tutilo had believed just as sincerely ? |
| 9 | But , 24 hours later , he was back to the player who before this Test had made just 333 from 19 innings at an average of 17.53 . |
| 10 | Scathach had lain just so … and she had been here … and had seen there … |
| 11 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 12 | And he added Mr Dobson had returned just last week from a working trip to Turkey . |
| 13 | Yet at least England can now hope in the future for better things from the bat of Lewis , who has always looked to have the ability to be a genuine all-rounder at Test level but until this match had scored just 483 runs from 15 Tests at an average of 24 . |
| 14 | A small boy of 8 called Louis had done just this . |
| 15 | His wife had died just over a year earlier ; one of his daughters was a teacher in Tel Aviv , the other a painter , and Shlomo Green was himself a sculptor of some distinction . |
| 16 | The alert last night had sounded just as Londoners were beginning to think that just for once there would be no air raid , and the first bombs fell as the last notes of the sirens gave way to an uneasy , brooding silence . |
| 17 | Her father had worked just as hard , and the boys too , when they were old enough . |
| 18 | Maisie 's father had died just after Christmas . |
| 19 | In retrospect it can be seen to mark the beginning of the end of the Pahlavi dynasty , which the Shah 's father had founded just fifty years before . |
| 20 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 21 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 22 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 23 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 24 | He pointed out to us , quite rightly , that the celebrated ‘ Destruction of the Country House ’ exhibition had illustrated just a fraction of Welsh losses and no extensive record of demolished country houses in the principality had ever been published . |
| 25 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
| 26 | Liam found a letter , which the old man had written just after Liam 's mother 's own death the year before . |
| 27 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |
| 28 | Christmas with their daughter had lasted just the one day , it seemed . |
| 29 | ( Nina Hamnett mentions a new outfit of blue suit and yellowish brown cap that Modigliani had bought just like Picasso 's , with money from the sale of a head . |
| 30 | The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war , though that situation was not to last long . |