Example sentences of "[verb] just [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time .
2 ‘ Well , he looks just like whatsisname … and so does she , look — give a look , go on . ’
3 Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses .
4 The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows .
5 It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger .
6 It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger .
7 When I started circuit work that periscope , completely forgotten during the flight , made me jump just before touchdown .
8 The soldiers must be changed ; what about jaunty tricorne , blue chin , military jerkin , one sleeve torn from shoulder , bare arm , one sleeve tattered , belts , striped culottes torn just below knee , hessian leggings , gartering .
9 The soaring market for roof slates , helped by a return to traditional architecture and materials , has come just in time .
10 The election has come just in time to boost the Easter start of the housing market 's buying season .
11 Five years later , another nuclear supremo , Sir John Hill , chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) , claimed that the nuclear industry had ‘ come just in time to save the world 's industrial society from a devastating energy shortage ’ .
12 ‘ You 've come just in time because tomorrow the cast moves on to Somerset . ’
13 A one million pound restoration of an ancient abbey has come just in time to prevent part of the building collapsing .
14 Our job has always been to stand just between heaven and earth — to be neither pain nor joy , man nor woman , but to stand beyond the dualities which rule this world .
15 Swan was very careful to fly low all the time , keeping just in front of the Gruncher , leading him on and on , threading a path carefully through the great trees in the forest .
16 They were rescued just in time , after one of them , an elderly woman , managed to raise the alarm .
17 Across the way in the main hall dominated by Renault and Peugeot/Citroen was Activa II , a big handsome XM coupe built just for show , but thought to be the type of car BMW should have built instead of the 850i .
18 Integrity therefore fuses citizens ' moral and political lives : it asks the good citizen , deciding how to treat his neighbour when their interests conflict , to interpret the common scheme of justice to which they are both committed just in virtue of citizenship .
19 That afternoon Sam Somerville took the regular flight from Heathrow to Washington , landing just after dark .
20 He stopped just in time , teetering on the edge .
21 Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not
22 Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections .
23 I said I 'd wait just inside doorway .
24 He was so engrossed in himself that he was startled by the sound of the back door opening just after midnight .
25 September 21 : Cessna 185 floatplane lost power and crashed just after take-off from Gunn Lake , near Gold Bridge , 100m north of Vancouver , British Columbia , killing all four on board .
26 It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while .
27 We 've actually got a situation outside where I live where a thirty mile an hour speed limit is erm finishes just in front of some of the houses and of course we 've got no access to their the gardens so we just park on the road .
28 Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics .
29 ‘ Surplus staff are being identified as unwanted and told that if redeployment is not possible within 28 days they could then be sacked just before Christmas . ’
30 I said , you know , after school , they do n't want just after school or Saturday cos I , cos it 's full-time .
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