Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a marvellous moment of stasis just before the final presto of this first movement ( a riveting tenuto E natural in the violins ) , while the finale is particularly notable for the rapture of its luminous string transformation ( dolcissimo ) in the central maestoso ) . |
| 2 | The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis . |
| 3 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 4 | The first one came out of a mouth just under the right epaulette . |
| 5 | McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight . |
| 6 | No lights came on when they tried the switch just inside the heavy oak door , but a minute 's search with a flashlight found the main fusebox further in along the wall . |
| 7 | Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 . |
| 8 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 9 | We 've come to do Merry Monk , an HVS at its left-hand end which requires us to traverse carefully along its base just above the slow-moving water , grasping strange iron spikes driven into the rock . |
| 10 | His rooms were in the original college , the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse , a seventeenth-century Mughal building just outside the Ajmeri Gate . |
| 11 | More than a billion for the A90 complex , and he had heard , and he believed it , that there was £35 million of money just for the new fencing and perimeter security equipment … money for that , money no object for the bloody contractors . |
| 12 | After a brief stay there , we move south-west into the ubiquitous rural ocean until we arrive at a remarkable experimental settlement just off the main road between Kharkov and Poltava . |
| 13 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 14 | There is a useful deep bin stowage on each side of the berth , a large hanging locker and comfortable small settee just inside the sliding cabin door . |
| 15 | P C Critchley on his old bike just like the dead officer , seems from another age , far from the violence of modern London . |
| 16 | He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself . |
| 17 | As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure . |
| 18 | John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ . |
| 19 | Knocker had descended on the village just after the Great War at the tender age of twenty five . |
| 20 | A grand building — complete with pool and wonderful terraced gardens — perched on the hillside just outside the picturesque village of Deya , it 's the ind of place that people return to time and time again . |
| 21 | This will eventually be extended to Zhuhai , the special economic zone just across the Chinese border . |
| 22 | ( It is much easier to imagine a single ‘ chunk ’ of space in which all possible universes can exist ; but we must remember that time is a dimension just like the other three . ) |
| 23 | Note the quick-access button bar just below the top menu |
| 24 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 25 | At this point the runners in the junior race , which takes place just before the main race , turn round . |
| 26 | Cut out the circle just inside the marked line ( to allow for the thickness of the tin ) so that you have a round . |
| 27 | A point just below the big toe . |
| 28 | The bus was travelling from Tbilisi in Georgia to Agdam , a town just outside the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region . |
| 29 | Manville hardly felt the entry of the .38 slug as it chewed into his body just below the bottom rib , burning upwards at an angle through his lung . |
| 30 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |