Example sentences of "just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 2 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 3 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 4 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 5 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 6 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 7 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ The delivery came very quickly and so suddenly Mrs Busuttil 's recollection is the baby just fell out onto the table or whatever it was she was lying on . ’ |
| 9 | There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street . |
| 10 | ‘ It worries me to death bringing her to the races at long odds-on , but she is a great filly and just flies out of the stalls , ’ said trainer Richard Hannon . |
| 11 | When Leach opened that cupboard it just tumbled out on the floor . ’ |
| 12 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 13 | And I 'm really being enormously selfish at this moment , because what I want is not Richard fussing around — and he does fuss , you know — but just to go back to the terrace and have tea . |
| 14 | Just to go out into the night can give a sense of this ; night is not empty darkness — the night can be warm , or stormy , still or windy , and the darkness is charged by this and has a changing life of its own . |
| 15 | it just goes on to the edge here . |
| 16 | Down the bottom that just goes out to the bottom and there 's a back |
| 17 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 18 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 19 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 20 | They just got on with the job . |
| 21 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 22 | Well , we just got out into the hallway where all these mothers were standing round and |
| 23 | And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on . |
| 24 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 25 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 26 | A large black car was just driving up to the airport building . |
| 27 | Just nip round to the supermarket now and stock up on the latest in buffet catering . |
| 28 | If I just nip round to the drawings I 'll just give you an indication of of what exactly we 're , we 're doing . |
| 29 | " Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too . |
| 30 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |