Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] just a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale . |
| 2 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 3 | You do n't say ? wrecking one cherished wish after another , until she was reduced to longing desperately for just an end to the regular death of the street-corner parting , the fear and loneliness of the long walk home . |
| 4 | ENGINEER Windsor Rees plunged half a mile down a mountainside in his Land-Rover and walked away with just a graze . |
| 5 | He turned away with just a touch of impatience . |
| 6 | Cut all the vegetables finely so that the dish can be eaten easily with just a fork . |
| 7 | He 'll be able to return to his Florida oceanside home in just a couple of hours . |
| 8 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 9 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 10 | And for the really adventurous there are opportunities to go much further , even for just a weekend — though it may be sensible to add on a day or two . |
| 11 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 12 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 13 | We got here in just an hour and five minutes . |
| 14 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 15 | Yes , well Michael Wright , I think you want to come in there for just a second . |
| 16 | They had this little room , half the size of a prison cell , and if you did anything wrong you were put in there with just a mattress , and you was left there locked in , to stew really . |
| 17 | And she 's sitting there with just a swimming costume on and they think |
| 18 | Kenny just stands there in just a suede jacket on . |
| 19 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 20 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 21 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
| 22 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |
| 23 | A pane of glass in one of the ground floor flats had been broken , replaced hastily with just a sheet of newspaper held in place by masking tape . |