Example sentences of "[vb past] just the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 2 | We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under . |
| 3 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 4 | One group received just the sentence , while another group heard ‘ disambiguating input ’ through a channel they were not explicitly attending to ( i.e. an additional sentence such as ‘ He extinguished the lantern ’ ) . |
| 5 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 6 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 7 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 8 | The cluster erm I was always very aware of this bit so it made me you know aware that there are things you can do and watching everybody just seemed just the answer inside you . |
| 9 | It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 10 | It all happened just the day before and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 11 | Although it is Neil Armstrong who will be forever immortalised in the history books , his ‘ One small step for a man , one giant leap for Mankind ’ represented just the tip of a huge pyramid of courage , research and dedication by the foremost scientific brainpower the human race has ever mustered . |
| 12 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 13 | They looked just the way they did when they turned to the altar on Sunday mornings . |
| 14 | In no time it looked just the part . |
| 15 | He looked just the sort of hulk who would attract simpering village lasses . |
| 16 | While in the quarter-century from 1950 to 1975 recorded notifiable offences per 100,000 population increased by just over 3,000 , from 1,094 to 4,283 , it took just the decade from 1976 to 1986 for crimes per 100,000 population to increase another 3,000 , from 4,346 to 7,331 ( Criminal Statistics , 1986 , Table 2.2 ) . |
| 17 | But their offer of free financial health checks proved just the tonic and generated a lot of new business . |
| 18 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 19 | The light , a single bulb in an ethnic basket , was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table . |
| 20 | After all , he had just the man on his staff . |
| 21 | AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met . |
| 22 | Had just the stuff in the shed . |
| 23 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 24 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 25 | yeah that 's what my mum said just the mirror |
| 26 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |