Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think you 're better than I am in just about every way , more beautiful , more clever , more experienced . |
| 2 | I was in just such a trance , going through the motions of doing what I was told , but without being able to do so in reality . |
| 3 | A : ‘ How could you do the Anfield Rap when you 're from just south of the Watford Gap . ’ |
| 4 | There was no details on the vouchers as to how much they are worth just a note saying that vouchers must be redeemed before 12 on the matchday . |
| 5 | But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product . |
| 6 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 7 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 8 | And I think it 's worth just rehearsing very briefly that history to get an understanding of contemporary federalism . |
| 9 | Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play . |
| 10 | It 's like just telling the punchline : if you do n't know the joke , it 's not that funny . ’ |
| 11 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 12 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 13 | It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend , |
| 14 | It is from just these categories that notions of sensibility traditionally take their meaning . |
| 15 | It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins . |
| 16 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 17 | It was at just that moment the bells began . |
| 18 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 19 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 20 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 21 | It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ . |
| 22 | It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’ |
| 23 | It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 . |
| 24 | As I have said already , it was in just such a position that the doctor who attended us in wartime lived . |
| 25 | It was in just this situation that the FAA originally decided to take an authoritative attitude and make it compulsory for flight crews to report dangerous incidents . |
| 26 | She followed him everywhere , allowing him to bully and browbeat her for all he was worth just as long as he did n't banish her . |