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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] just [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I looked just like a crinoline lady .
2	So Sid and I sat just outside the trench discussing the events of the day , and swatting mosquitoes .
3	As I sat just outside the entrance to the trench it was very difficult to accept that Taff was dead .
4	She moved just inside the close , but he remained outside .
5	Ever since she 'd seen a real arachnid close up she shuddered just at the word .
6	‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light .
7	And she filmed Just Like a Woman , on general release later this month , in which she plays a woman who falls in love with a transvestite .
8	To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them .
9	The door was open and she stood just outside the aperture taking in the five men .
10	At the same time the woman moved , incredibly quickly — ; she seemed to glide quite upright , and they met just beyond the platform roof in the sunlight .
11	They stopped just over the brow of a hill .
12	They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks .
13	They arrived just after the messenger from the shrine and jumped on Caledor by surprise .
14	They flew just above the surface of the water and their wings made a loud wubbering noise like canvas flapping in the wind .
15	That they went just past the half-thousand was mainly due to Sohail , but the neat little Asif Mujtaba beavered away for 57 , and at tea the score stood at 252 for 2 , Sohail having gone to his century , the first ever for Pakistan in a Manchester Test , with an ondriven three from his 127th ball .
16	The air was all fresh on my face , I could be a loon myself , fling my arms about , shout across the mud-flats ( they looked just like the muddy backside of yesterday 's elephants ) and listen to my shout dissolving in the air before it reached the other side .
17	They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly .
18	They stood just outside the front door .
19	It stopped just outside the hole .
20	The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch .
21	He practised just down the road from her theatre , above an occult shop in Monmouth Street .
22	‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor .
23	It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories .
24	‘ It happened just before the end of the tax-year , because everyone is worried about tax going up from 40 to 50 p.c. if Labour gets in . ’
25	Quite by chance , he discovered just before the ceremony that Jules Laforgue , who had exercised such a decisive influence on his youthful poetry , had also been married at St Barnabas 's .
26	JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor .
27	It looked just like a sailor 's hammock made out of toilet paper , cotton wool and string .
28	‘ It looked just like a puddle , ’ she said .
29	Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man .
30	It looked just like the picture of Gullible or whoever he was , except the nomes had got hold of what the nomes in those days had never heard of , which was lots of electric wire .