Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.

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1 Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one
2 The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died .
3 The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect .
4 It was a neat description by a commander who had been forewarned of just this certainty .
5 Mr Gough said that the merger discussions had been completed in just three weeks .
6 Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an .
7 Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances .
8 A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door .
9 At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years .
10 But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century .
11 The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition .
12 Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency .
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