Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melissa 's mouth sagged open just a little and Robyn 's smile was pure satisfaction . |
| 2 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |
| 3 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 4 | They managed to keep their lassitude at bay with regular coffee breaks every hour and when lunch arrived unexpectedly just after midday , courtesy of Brummer , they were grateful for the nourishment and the respite . |
| 5 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 6 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 7 | Pam 's husband died suddenly just six months ago . |
| 8 | The designer 's job had only just begun , he said . |
| 9 | He nodded , relieved that they had left her alone although he knew this business had only just started . |
| 10 | I could see that the picture had only just started . |
| 11 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 12 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 13 | To a casual observer , he was at peace , yet the tension in his body remained only just dormant , simmering uneasily below explosion point . |
| 14 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 15 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 16 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 17 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 18 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 19 | I suppose one of them old cows — well , they stood there rubbing of their old rumps about like that , you know ; and all at once this here tumbril fell down , and the back chain went right just over the front of har shoulders . |
| 20 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 21 | As he reached the cabin , the door swung open just in time . |
| 22 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 23 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 24 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 25 | Slowly , it moved upwards among jagged folds of rock hanging like petrified curtains above their heads ; it swung to the right and travelled downwards , glistening on a myriad crystalline particles in the rock face ; it moved across to the left and traced a black line where the stone floor ended abruptly just short of the far wall . |
| 26 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 27 | Unemployment had then just begun its big rise but there were still jobs going — I was just being silly about which ones to apply for . |
| 28 | Most of those who took part had only just met . |
| 29 | Lying in the rocks , the stems look like broken necklaces , their individual beads sometimes scattered , sometimes still in loose snaking columns as though their thread had only just snapped . |
| 30 | Our hack at the train buffet overheard recently just what the workers at Dounreay , where Britain 's work on fast breeder reactors is based , thought of one of the UKAEA 's director 's . |