Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] just [art] " in BNC.

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1 The architect and his wife would put Eric up for the night and give us both a delicious dinner , the Signora exercising just the degree of chaperonage that was considered desirable at that time .
2 Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away .
3 He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction .
4 Now Mr Wolski shivered as the moon went behind a cloud for a moment leaving just the stars in the night sky .
5 distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy .
6 Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another .
7 the start state is the minimal tree containing just the hypotheses and the negation of the statement to be proved .
8 The old Escorts went up more than 12 per cent last year , the last rise coming just a couple of weeks before the introduction of the new model .
9 The Scots went into the game requiring just a draw to take the title , but there was no stopping them in their fifth successive victory , by 5-2 .
10 In this way the body was put into the coffin wearing just a shift and bonnet .
11 This is done by blowing through the egg leaving just the shell .
12 We should note that a calculation using just the SEP gives exactly half this value ; we shall look at the complete calculation in Chapter 8 .
13 Interior shot showing just a tiny part of the immense stock carried by W A Parker ( Aircraft Spares ) Ltd , Benfleet .
14 shrew mandible from tawny owl assemblage showing perforation of the ascending ramus but no damage to the bar-like structure that supports it ( ×10 ) ; J. enlargement of the same ( ×38 ) ; K. advanced breakage of a shrew mandible from red kite assemblage leaving just the supporting structures of the ascending ramus ( ×9 ) ; L. partial loss of ascending ramus of a shrew mandible from a little owl assemblage ( ×8 ) ; M. mole mandible from red kite assemblage ( ×8 ) ; N. shrew mandible from small-spotted genet assemblage ( ×8 ) .
15 One British couple living just a few hundred yards away were amazed by the news .
16 He became interested as a boy of six when he discovered a set living just a few hundred yards away from the wooden bungalow in which the family then lived .
17 One easily solved and one unsolved problem in number theory are included in Examples 2.2.2 ( i ) The binary relation unc is a finite set comprising just the two elements ( 2,4 ) and ( 4,2 ) .
18 A state of knowledge is a set of facts of this form , and so the search can be described adequately in a language containing just the names of things which might be found , all possible coordinates , and the relation here-found .
19 Sean ran out of the house carrying just the bag which he had grabbed going out .
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