Example sentences of "just [prep] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , there are a hundred ninety two houses in this particular estate erm , which makes a total of eight hundred and forty pound just for sending a bill ! |
| 2 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 3 | COUNCIL worker Derek Bastard earns £37,000 a year … just for keeping a city 's street lights going . |
| 4 | A lot of clothes just for crossing the farmyard on a warm autumn night . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you should get an Oscar just for making a film , ’ he grumbles . |
| 6 | What is more , just after training the increase in activity was greatest in the left IMHV and left LPO . |
| 7 | Cancel the signal just after leaving the roundabout . |
| 8 | Exit : Keep left-turn indicator going until just after leaving the roundabout |
| 9 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 10 | Just after releasing the torpedo five searchlights , two from the breakwaters and three from the Harbour were switched directly onto the aircraft . |
| 11 | It would seem to follow from our convictions about fairness that legislation on these moral issues should be a matter not just of enforcing the will of the numerical majority , as if its view were unanimous , but of trades and compromises so that each body of opinion is represented , to a degree that matches its numbers , in the final result . |
| 12 | Put simply , it is ( to recover the Platonic imagery for a moment ) a matter not just of seeing the light , but also of living in the light . |
| 13 | And there were oak trees stood up there ; and it snapped three of 'em off just like snapping a match . |
| 14 | Even if you can not reach any gardens or nurseries to see roses in action and have to rely on catalogues and lists , there is a great deal of enjoyment to be derived from weighing up the pros and cons and in the anticipation of the pleasures to come , just like choosing a holiday from the glossy brochures . |
| 15 | Writing on a touch sensitive computer screen with a ‘ stylus ’ just like using a pen and paper has been possible for quite some time now . |
| 16 | But just like seeking an orchid , |
| 17 | It could well be said that once the ‘ feel ’ of control is acquired then all you need is practice , and just like riding the bicycle , all the arm movements become a spontaneous impulse.But life is n't that easy , and in our experience , the ‘ prangs ’ have to be suffered before the ‘ knack ’ of dexterous control is accomplished . |
| 18 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ HE COULD play the guitar just like a-ringing a bell . ’ |
| 20 | It is just like having a child 's kite on the end of your line in a strong wind . |
| 21 | Then it 's just like driving a car . |
| 22 | Just like playing the game itself , it seems . |
| 23 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 24 | A peripheral foreland basin begins to develop as the continental crust of the underthrusting plate is bent just before entering the subduction zone . |
| 25 | We followed a winding , sandy lane strewn with yellowing pine needles and , just before entering the forest , sighted a manoir with tall towers reminiscent of candle-snuffers . |
| 26 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 27 | Just before leaving the path we heard a frantic rustle and spied a baby adder slithering away . |
| 28 | But just before leaving the path , I looked back . |
| 29 | It is easiest at first to limit the rudder movement to half or three quarters of the full deflection and to start by applying the banking movement just before applying the rudder . |
| 30 | For those who know how , doing yoga for half an hour in the morning , or meditating in a darkened room for ten minutes just before giving the speech will assist , or perhaps it will require nothing more than taking a deep breath before you speak . |