Example sentences of "[verb] just [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang on a sec lovey I want just want to ask er Carol something . |
| 2 | The timer on my cooker has just begun to bleep , so I 'd better go and attend to the dinner . |
| 3 | Bake for at least 1 hour or until the cake has just begun to shrink from sides of tin and is springy to the touch — a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean . |
| 4 | Perhaps he has just waited to see what was emerging and then stepped in quickly to take the initiative and carry forward the proposal which he has sensed is about to emerge . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’ |
| 6 | Pahdra Singh has just called to say that while he was at the funeral his house was burgled and a number of valuable antiques were stolen . |
| 7 | The company has just started to assemble video recorders , in Berlin and Newhaven in Britain , from kits of parts imported from Japan . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid my speedometer has just started to jam . |
| 9 | Motoring : The soaring triumph of the exotic Stag : Blow all your savings on a rare classic convertible which has just started to show a major rise in value , says Roger Bell |
| 10 | So imagine the confused looks on the faces of viewers in America , where the PBS network has just started to show the Yorkshire Dale 's soap for the first time . |
| 11 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 12 | We have not chosen to think these thoughts , our mind has just started to think them without us being aware of what we are thinking . |
| 13 | BP Oil UK 's lubricants and special products division has just started to blend lubes to be sold in Britain under the Unipart label , and the first batch was supplied in May . |
| 14 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 15 | Christ Church JCR in Cambridge has just voted to place a compulsory levy on students ' charges to subsidise tampons and sanitary towels . |
| 16 | THE British government has just refused to undo , by retrospective legislation , a decision of the law lords that invalidated all interest-rate swaps conducted by local authorities . |
| 17 | She has dismantled and unstitched my slatted blind single-clawed , and has just arrived to see what she can do here . |
| 18 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 19 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 20 | ( The world has just had to manage without you ! ) |
| 21 | And now I learn that the Foundation has just had to purchase a number of canvases from this very donor for a far from meagre amount . |
| 22 | ‘ Unfortunately , the family has just had to fit in around Graham 's needs , ’ Kathleen adds . |
| 23 | Paul Downton has just failed to reach a snick by Larry Gomes off Derek Pringle , and the response of Botham and Gower says it all . |
| 24 | The Amoco Corporation has just agreed to pay compensation of 2.5 million francs to a syndicate of fishermen , who lost earnings when six boats from the port of Sibiril in northern Brittany were confined to port for a month . |
| 25 | AIR France , the state-owned carrier which has just agreed to buy its Belgian rival Sabena , trimmed its losses to land £68.5m in the red for 1991 . |
| 26 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 27 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 28 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 29 | A salesman from a components supplier has just offered to provide the firm 's requirements for two components , the BC100 at £7.75 each and the BC200 at £2.00 each . |
| 30 | The trust , which attracts 30,000 visitors each year to its exhibition of pictures illustrating Whitby 's past , has just managed to scrape through with a surplus of £75 . |