Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preliminary analyses of the survey were completed just after the discovery of the error and before corrections could be made . |
| 2 | ‘ When his sheep ate some clover the other day , and were swollen just like these , he sent for Gabriel at once , and Gabriel saved their lives . ’ |
| 3 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 4 | They were rescued just in time , after one of them , an elderly woman , managed to raise the alarm . |
| 5 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 6 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 7 | Of those who were visited , 44 per cent had only relatives to see them , 11 per cent were visited just by friends or neighbours and 45 per cent by both relatives and friends ; the most frequent visitor was a relative for 78 per cent and a friend or neighbour for 22 per cent . |
| 8 | Perhaps , unfortunately , a fairly high proportion of the counts were made just after the 1962/63 winter when populations of many species were very low . |
| 9 | Bottles of wine were produced just after seven . |
| 10 | I well remember a cold , dark night while we were anchored just inside the entrance to Helford . |
| 11 | The frost-bitten Weston brothers were waiting just off the Bath Road near Maidenhead in Berkshire . |
| 12 | I was asleep in my bunk when we were torpedoed just before 0600 hours . |
| 13 | Darlington police and ambulance were alerted just after 10am , but Mr Dobson , of Lewes Road , Darlington , was certified dead at the scene . |
| 14 | Peruvian Ruddies — It 's not likely they were stolen just for someone 's dinner table |
| 15 | A new 20 KW short wave transmitter was purchased and purpose-built studios were provided just outside the city . |
| 16 | When the Headmaster wanted a little exercise , you bent over a chair and got six — twelve with a cane on the backside ; if you were hit just below the buttocks on the legs , it hurt more . |
| 17 | Changes of extracellular pH ( pH o ) were monitored just outside the cell while controlling the membrane potential by whole-cell clamping . |
| 18 | Three androids , apparently unscathed and in untattered robes of black silk , were standing just inside the doorway . |
| 19 | Yet many names do not believe that the losses for which they are being asked to stump up were incurred just through bad luck . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for Charles , they were warned just in time , and escaped . |
| 21 | As overhauled cars returned from Hendon , route boards were fitted just below the saloon windows , where they were more accessible than in the old position on the upper deck . |
| 22 | ‘ Emma and Becky 's lives were ended just before their 18th birthday when they would have begun to make a contribution to the world through the caring professions they had chosen to work in . |
| 23 | The Maggot whooped , dragged the stick back and our earthwards wing lifted and suddenly we were screaming just above the palm trees , close to the tiled roofs and at a speed that seemed to be doubled because of our proximity to the ground . |
| 24 | Specimens of the colorectal mucosa were obtained just after their surgical excision . |
| 25 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 26 | For most of them the ‘ arena , was formed just by swinging a huge articulated truck across one end of the street . |
| 27 | The jeep stopped at a caravan that was situated just off the path and under two trees . |
| 28 | An oesophageal tube was placed just above the obstacle under fluoroscopic guidance to drain the saliva . |
| 29 | Check when Christmas cards and special lines will be delivered ( the order was placed just after Easter ) . |
| 30 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |