Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] just [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I want Only just get me a tin of hair lacquer , normal hold for tinted that 's all I want . |
| 2 | It also enables management to anticipate both beneficial and adverse trends before the event or take evasive action when the evidence of an emerging problem has only just presented itself . |
| 3 | My son has only just reached his majority , and I understand he is in no immediate financial need . |
| 4 | Although the idea of WCY is over a year old and the year is now a month old , Britain has only just announced its six-man committee to represent the country 's interests . |
| 5 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 6 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 7 | ‘ Everybody complains about taxes today , but in ancient times wealthy Romans were expected not just to pay their taxes but to finance public works , as well . ’ |
| 8 | You are expected not just to have one by you , but to answer it or , if you can not ( because you are ‘ in a meeting ’ ) , then to have a secretary to take messages and make sure that calls are returned . |
| 9 | Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print . |
| 10 | The one-lap hurdles queen has quickly discovered that winning the Olympic title has not just brought her fame and fortune . |
| 11 | Qualified Teachers days are designed not just to help you with thoughts and ideas for future lessons of your own , but to expand and develop your knowledge and understanding of Medau , and , with that , we also hope you have an enjoyable social day . |
| 12 | Versant has also just shipped its stuff for OS/2 . |
| 13 | It has also just won its second national training award . |
| 14 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 15 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 16 | Naturally I exaggerate , but it must be of vital importance that people whose contact with the hills is likely to be brief , are taught not just to fulfil their potential but to respect the environment that enables them to do it . |
| 17 | He 'd spoken so quietly , his face against the top of her head , that she 'd only just heard his words . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I think he 'd only just realised himself . |
| 20 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 21 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 22 | Well , they came by in their lorry when we 'd only just started you see , of course great ’ ooh hahhhh ’ with their when we 're treading in , and erm trouble was , we were still doing when the came along and they yelled out ’ you prisoner , we free ! ’ |
| 23 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 24 | and I mean I then I 'd only just had my operation an and to actually drive for longer than about twenty minute journeys was killing so |
| 25 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 26 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 27 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 28 | I 'd have done better just believing everything I was taught when I was young ! |
| 29 | The dip-shit little bastards deserve the fucking Micks turning them into mince ; saw the inside of an armoured car once ; been blown to buggery ; thrown a hundred feet into the air and then rolled all the way down a hill ; we took turns looking inside just to prove we were real men ; looked like the inside of a fucking slaughter-house … ’ |
| 30 | Puts , but she knew that if she 'd bought me one with all those buttons , I 'd off just confused her |