Example sentences of "just [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 2 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 3 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 4 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 5 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 6 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 7 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 8 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 9 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 10 | I said , Why do n't you just knock the flaming wall down . |
| 11 | We have just heard the usual mixture of muddle , confusion and gloom to which we have become accustomed from the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) , who tries every year to prove that more equals less . |
| 12 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 13 | We have just heard the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) dismiss the argument that people pay more income tax and VAT if they are on high incomes . |
| 14 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd just make the odd suggestion from time to time , ’ says Freddie . |
| 16 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 17 | And mine 's is the , the one , the tape cos she just records the whole room . |
| 18 | Just lacked the normal sense of urgency … maybe this is a deliberatle ploy by Wilko too ? |
| 19 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 20 | Erm , Mr Brighton was was critical of the County Council in just using the residual method to determine the size of the new settlement , er and then in in backing up that justification erm referred to work that is included in in Barton Willmore 's proof , I 've I have read this survey work quite carefully , and my understanding of it is is that erm by un undertaking a survey of settlements in the county , they have established , albeit f f f for information purposes only , a population threshold for a particular type of service , erm , in in the North Yorkshire context , erm the implication I I understand from that is is that that is being used to justify a fourteen hundred figure or or whatever it is to achieve the level of services that would would be required for a a balanced integrated community to use the words for the guidance . |
| 21 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 22 | Semi-permanents that do not contain oxidation dyes just stain the outer hair and do not cause porosity and damage . |
| 23 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 24 | Well she 's only just joined the human race when she 's had a fag and a cup of coffee . |
| 25 | They were close to the canal , and there were several people about , inspecting the expensive fashion jewellery on sale in several shops , or just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the lock area . |
| 26 | When the weather is fine this even creates a waving sea of people ; many bidding , many just enjoying the lively atmosphere . |
| 27 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France . |
| 29 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 30 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |