Example sentences of "[verb] just [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be quite illuminating to write down a few vague goals , and then to discover just how deepseated your real feelings about nursing can be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has just enough to buy his materials , to live , to have a working holiday every year , to manage . |
| 4 | Her mouth felt suddenly dry and her lips parted just sufficiently to allow her tongue to moisten their parched surface . |
| 5 | He was several paces past when he heard the car doors open and realised just how outnumbered he was . |
| 6 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 7 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 8 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 9 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 10 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 11 | Having just painfully disentangled herself from one relationship , she had no intention of getting involved in another for a very long time . |
| 12 | One possibility is that the Sun is currently going through a ‘ quiescent ’ phase : the nuclear reactions at its core are continuing just sufficiently to keep our star shining , but no more than that ; in due course the Sun will get back to ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ She called just now to say someone has collapsed outside the medical centre . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll check things out at this end to see if anything might be causing it here — you ca n't all have just suddenly changed your addresses ! |
| 15 | However , you will need to decide just where to restart it . |
| 16 | And that 's happened just recently has it ? |
| 17 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just about had you — in spades ! |
| 19 | And eventually you think you 've just about got it sussed and they throw in indexes . |
| 20 | Well why do you want one , you 've just bloody had one |
| 21 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 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 | I was doing my third week as a young crime reporter and had just about finished my second and last story of the day when the phone rang . |
| 24 | I picked up reasonable speed and had just about regained my composure when a hand appeared on my left shoulder from behind ! |
| 25 | ‘ Well today you had just better fix it so there wo n't be any damage , ’ she said , and then speared him with a saccharin smile . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In fact , whatever else it may be , Lighthouses is a cornucopia of virtuoso orchestral effects , a continuously shifting , shimmering kaleidoscope of sonority by a composer who seems to know just about every effect in the book , plus many he 's discovered for himself , and who knows just how to use them . |
| 28 | The Battersea group have just successfully organised their fourth ‘ Embassy crawl ’ or sponsored walk on Saturday 19 October . |
| 29 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 30 | ‘ I have just about lost my voice , ’ he told a largely working-class crowd at McAllen , Texas . |