Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 2 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 3 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 4 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 5 | Just picked up the kids . |
| 6 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 7 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 9 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 10 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 11 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 12 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 13 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 14 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 15 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 16 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 17 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 18 | we thought oh they 've just got out the guarantee . |
| 19 | we , we 've only just got out the bath and then she says come on hurry up now |
| 20 | Well he 's just locked up the car ooh |
| 21 | Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf , would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company ? |
| 22 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 23 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
| 24 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 25 | Just cut out the voucher at the foot of the page and take it along to the Centre , which is located in Rose Hill , Sutton , and you will be allowed to join the Centre for just £14 . |
| 26 | One thing one thing we could do is erm reduce or not not photo-reduce but just cut out the middle of a sheet of the headed notepaper , then you get two two ha er two A five things but that way round . |
| 27 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 28 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 29 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 30 | I know your local authority craftsmen and I have as you 're aware , just taken over the responsibilities and that is the first meeting that I had , that was why also there 's nothing in the report , because I thought I had a conference of people I had not spoken to the shop stewards I did n't have a f a feedback prior to the closing date of the report being concluded for print so I do and I have |