Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | He giggles a sudden twit-giggle as if I 've just farted and scrunches up his flipping funny face as if the stitches in some private part have just popped open , and at that moment he is the very image of a nervous comic wreak . |
| 2 | At the end of the year , the surplus added to the general reserve was £325,000 , meaning that our liquid reserves total just over £2m — equivalent to three months ' operating costs . |
| 3 | Most mixer taps simply use the hot and cold knobs to control flow and temperature , but some modern one-hole mixers have just a single lever which does both . |
| 4 | Did he imagine it , or did that shapely but rigid mouth tremble just a little ? |
| 5 | The space-sharing Dutch and German schemes in residential areas do just this whilst the ‘ winkelerf ’ approach to shopping precincts also aims at integration of foot and wheeled traffic . |
| 6 | There was a wet fish shop just there and in my eagerness to escape I darted in . |
| 7 | Come straight back if you have no luck , otherwise you will find that meaty bits of Louis XIV 's foreign policy have just passed you by . " |
| 8 | ‘ There , now , Dr Cameron , I 'm sure those nice people at Scottish Television know just what they 're doing . |
| 9 | modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point |
| 10 | British Coal have just launched a safety campaign urging boiler owners to have them checked . |
| 11 | Male lions do just that . |
| 12 | Not only do the longer studs serve no purpose other than to inflict greater pain upon both teammates and opposition ( standard studs give just as much grip in the scrums ) , but the players rightly risk sanction if caught endangering others . |
| 13 | Although the kicks and punches are released with great intent , the actual strikes fall just short of the target areas . |
| 14 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 15 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 16 | Can I just do this little bit look just to the end of the branch . |
| 17 | Calculated gross redemption yields ( real ) on index-linked bonds vary just as do yields ( in nominal terms ) on conventional bonds . |
| 18 | If he is interested in what is happening in the European Community , he could do no better than cast his eyes across to France where a socialist Government have just announced that country 's highest-ever unemployment level . |
| 19 | Although you might not know it , some of modern popular music 's most cherished players have just returned to the States after a dismal British tour . |
| 20 | This program will make your non-laser printer operate just like a typewriter so that every time a key is pressed it is sent to the printer . |
| 21 | This was a place where , in 1969 , a yearly junior season ticket for the three municipal courses cost just a fiver . |
| 22 | Domestic appliances use just under half of the electricity supplied to homes . |
| 23 | About half a dozen big black cars have just pulled up outside . ’ |
| 24 | Now the few surviving members of the once thriving club have just two rooms behind The Institute pub where they meet to play snooker and enjoy an all-male sanctuary . |
| 25 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 26 | Looks horrendous , but bear in mind these elderly people have just answered a sixteen page postal questionnaire with no help . |
| 27 | While it has been widely recognized that both plural and singular references are possible under many circumstances ( Eschenbach , Habel , Herweg & Rehkämper 1989 ; Garrod & Sanford 1982 ) , the present results reveal just how prevalent singulars can be , even given a grammatical grouping cue like and . |
| 28 | Perin ( 1983 ) has recently reported that good readers who are poor spellers have just as much of a problem with phonetic segmentation as do poor readers . |
| 29 | In some cases , overseas groups have just taken speculative shareholdings in British insurance companies in the hope that their interest may flush out other buyers . |
| 30 | Vertical applications have just started to appear , one of the first being Cambridge Micro 's package for estate agents ( Computer , June 1 ) . |