Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] just [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth felt suddenly dry and her lips parted just sufficiently to allow her tongue to moisten their parched surface . |
| 2 | She said the only way you could another way you can cut your costs , he said , is , is that due to all these drivers he said , you 've got it you 've virtually got any driver on this car said just just have it you and yo , and your wife he said , and that 'll cut your costs down enormously . |
| 3 | its the same in all jobs , look at the banks how they 've had to cut down on staff , computers have just totally took over , I mean every , every area of work more or less its been done away with by computers |
| 4 | Westminster environmental protection officer Sid Geake says the council has just about cracked the problem of multiple signs , but is now going even further to curb the blight . |
| 5 | I guess the right girl has just never come along . ’ |
| 6 | This suggests that either educational reform has just not gone far enough or that , although improved educational standards constitute an important development goal , they can only be effective when accompanied by structural changes in the rest of society . |
| 7 | The group has just officially opened a badger nursery where young injured and orphaned animals can be raised and returned to the wild . |
| 8 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 9 | Chigaga had just successfully negotiated a US$650 million economic restructuring package . |
| 10 | The Battersea group have just successfully organised their fourth ‘ Embassy crawl ’ or sponsored walk on Saturday 19 October . |
| 11 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 12 | My er the right hon the right honourable lady I 'm er I do n't know whether I 'm sorry to say or not , it 's a bit out of date , my right honourable friend has just today given a clear explanation of the back to basics theme . |
| 13 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 14 | Bill Webb , managing director of the Progressive , said Northern Ireland investors know just how to play the market — and win . |
| 15 | Instead his minders offered just enough to keep the hacks occupied , mainly in transcribing undecipherable tape recordings snatched on carefully marshalled visits , whose symbolism was either crassly self-evident or completely obscure . |
| 16 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 17 | Well , Debbie has just about given in . |
| 18 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 19 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 20 | Honda have just recently produced a motorbike that erm is microcomputer controlled . |
| 21 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 22 | Tony rang Kate 's parents to tell them to come round ( they were going to look after 2½-year-old William ) and , by the time they arrived , Kate had just about finished her bath . |
| 23 | You 'll keep Marion constant company , and if she is — bothered — ’ her light voice paused just enough to give the word extra significance — ‘ you will tell me . |
| 24 | The rest of the tour have just about managed to laugh about it by now , but not Jasper . |
| 25 | The local council in Banbury have just recently passed the planning application for the Coca Cola canning plant there , is this something you would welcome given problems with pollution up in Banbury anyway , before ? |
| 26 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 27 | Cognos has just about sorted out one of the big problems software companies with a proprietary platform background face when getting into Unix : pricing . |
| 28 | " Yes , the tide had just about turned when I got there . |
| 29 | Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m . |
| 30 | How did the first deer know just where to go ? |