Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 2 | A tall girl , her dark hair obviously just washed and half done up in rollers , came to the bottom of the stairs . |
| 3 | I 'm not used to coming from this direction so just remind me where the turning is . |
| 4 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 5 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 6 | Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast . |
| 7 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 8 | Some researchers think the STM may have a more distant future not just analysing molecules and microcircuits but helping to make them . |
| 9 | For Italian Vogue he dyed the skin of Linda Evangelista nearly black and painted Rachel Williams silver not just to produce a great photograph ( although he has produced many ) , but to synthesise a vision of fashion that is more significant than showing clothes . |
| 10 | With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful . |
| 11 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 12 | The argument against poststructuralism really just repeats Lukács ' reproach , set out in his 1957 essay ‘ The Ideology of Modernism ’ , that modernism involves a ‘ negation of history ’ . |
| 13 | I thought they all be brilliant , but they were utter shite , so I thought to myself : ‘ There 's a great talent here just waiting to be discovered ! ’ ’ |
| 14 | Now my sister just just had her bathroom just had her bath bathroom artexed ? |
| 15 | In a recent letter to Dr Jeffrey , the association 's chairman , Electricity Association chief executive Roger Farrance , said ‘ The EEIBA only just manages to balance its books and its case load is increasing all the time . |
| 16 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 17 | he 's retired , but he 's , he 's been quite busy with this Festival , but I , I said to him , now what I 'll do is maybe come and you and him and Jane maybe kind of will just sort of have a quick confab sometime just talk about what he wants , and he will be kind of happy to do that with obviously we 'd have to find a drop of money to pay for the tapes , I mean that would n't be huge and expensive . |
| 18 | If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out . |
| 19 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 20 | Any fanatical guitar collector or dealer would find a fair few things to pick holes in ( the excessive buckle-scratching on the back , the missing selector-switch surround , a semi-collapsed bridge causing severe buzzing on the middle strings , the advanced state of decay of the stop tailpiece , an unoriginal jack-plate and a number of modern screws ) but despite its flaws the whole guitar still just reeks of class and character . |
| 21 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 22 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 23 | it does it moves attention away just takes takes the little bit of the tension off you so you can do that as well . |
| 24 | But the director always just said , sorry . |
| 25 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 26 | I said I was myself but , but what get 's me is people stand there chat , I mean your walking behind them and then all of a sudden there just stop dead , and you must be carry on walking oh god there 's about twenty of them there blocking the fucking isle |
| 27 | ‘ Maginot Line is English 6c , and if he is n't doing that grade then Just Do It ca n't have hard moves on it ’ . |
| 28 | Despite that , the Elliot 's Downfall icicle only just touched the ground , so the ice was much thinner than in 1986 . |
| 29 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 30 | A good school should educate the whole person not just develop each child 's true potential at GCSE and A level , he said . |