Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] just [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 2 | He told Mr Maclean : ‘ It is unacceptable that one quarter of the annual authorisation of particular radio nucleids should be discharged in just a 24-hour period . |
| 3 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 4 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 6 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 7 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 8 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 9 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |
| 10 | So you 've got to get used to advocating with just an ordinary table , and how do you do that ? |
| 11 | Teesside counsellor Cricket Kemp tells of a couple who suffered from just a simple misunderstanding . |
| 12 | More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem . |
| 13 | Living at just the right distance from things is impossible cos one had to move about in order to know where one is — the principle of 2 or more radar points plotting the position of an object . |
| 14 | She thought she was peaking at just the right time for her battle of the sexes match with Jimmy Connors scheduled for Las Vegas on September 24 with a 500,000 dollar first prize . |
| 15 | the system is set up so that the engine for each car arrives at just the right moment . ’ |
| 16 | The Experience consists of four young men who look , talk and act as if they 've grown up in good families , graduated from decent schools , and dress as if they shop at just the right places — Paul Smith , say , or Emporio Armani . |
| 17 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 18 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 19 | We 're witnessing the slow death of the 5.25-inch floppy : this is yet another machine supplied with just a 3.5-inch 1.44Mb floppy drive . |
| 20 | This is a very small sample of labouring class poetry in the eighteenth century , for as A. J. Sambrook observes with just a little exaggeration : ‘ … since the discovery in 1730 of Stephen Duck … hardly a year had passed without some peasant poet being brought forward and hailed as a ‘ natural genius ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 22 | What you get is Bob returning to his roots with songs from the American folk and blues archives performed with just a single guitar and voice . |
| 23 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 24 | A colour can be replaced for just a single stitch , across a complete row or throughout the whole design . |
| 25 | Embankments can vary considerably in size ; many cater for just a slight change in the level of the ground . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I 'm lucky not to be paralysed and to have escaped with just a busted nose . ’ |
| 27 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 28 | He escaped with just a broken wrist and is recovering in Wolverhampton Manor Hospital . |
| 29 | The inflation was a good thing in that it produced a universe that was smooth and uniform on a large scale and was expanding at just the critical rate to avoid recollapse . |
| 30 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |