Example sentences of "just [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right . |
| 2 | It has just completed a successful trial with one major high street bank and is convinced that others , anxious to cut costs , will share in the enthusiasm . |
| 3 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 4 | The Rail , Maritime and Transport Union ( RMT ) has just completed a national ballot asking members , including around 260 at Harwich , whether they support industrial action . |
| 5 | The band have little spare time on their hands , they 've just completed a 50 date tour and have recorded a session for the Bob Harris Radio One show which goes out from Monday April 13th–16th , one song each night . |
| 6 | I have just completed a randomised study of 24 patients receiving oral hypoglycaemic agents , in which I compared the glycaemic control ( as indicated by monthly assay of fructosamine ) of a group allocated to self monitoring of blood glucose and a similar group who tested their urine . |
| 7 | THE YOUNG PEOPLE 'S Leisure and Lifestyles project based in the Department of Education at the University of Aberdeen has just completed a seven-year study . |
| 8 | I 've just completed a 16,000 mile trip around the US , carrying a Dell notebook that weighed about 7lb , and believe me , the difference is impressive . |
| 9 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 10 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 11 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 12 | Suppose , first , that a company has just developed a new product with an estimated life-cycle as shown in table 5.1 . |
| 13 | She added : ‘ I did n't see anything , just heard a loud noise , and suddenly my home was on fire . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) Bleasdale Computers ( Harvard OTC ) " The company has just arranged a major deal with British Telecom who will market and supply their computers . |
| 15 | These contented residents at Orchard House can relax knowing that staff here have just won a major safety award . |
| 16 | With the help of a similar system , the right-wing Union for France has just won a sweeping majority in a French general election . |
| 17 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 18 | The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year . |
| 19 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) has just done a first-rate job on behalf of the Labour party . |
| 21 | ‘ Fighting ships that were disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q-ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ Fighting ships disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |
| 24 | What you wan na do is I 've just done a seven day report on the er on hazard spotting etcetera etcetera etcetera and all the different surveys we 've had on the site over the past month . |
| 25 | Rob has just done a green audit for the district council . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 27 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
| 28 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 29 | The Dreghorn barracks in Edinburgh has just undergone a major refurbishment programme as well as having a new wing built . |
| 30 | The locomotive built by Neilsons in 1891 has just undergone a massive overhaul which cost an incredible £70,000 . |