Example sentences of "just [vb pp] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 3 | His nonconformity was not just limited to the roles he chose or to his moody persona but also to his sexuality . |
| 4 | I 'd never met anyone like you , and the fact that there was a rumour that you were newly in mourning for your father just added to the mystique , because I was young enough to find tragedy romantic . ’ |
| 5 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 6 | Having a family just added to the strain . |
| 7 | Nowadays , the printing is not just confined to the head of the paper . |
| 8 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 9 | The selling effort is not just confined to the Promotion element in the marketing mix . |
| 10 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
| 12 | Dominic Dromgoole , of the excellent Bush Theatre ; Julia Bardsley , co-director of the Leicester Haymarket , and Phyllida Lloyd , whose superb production of The Virtuoso at Stratford has just come to the Barbican , are just a few of the other names I could have included . |
| 13 | Many gins later , his guests had just come to the end of the petits fours when Wullie Robertson turned up , forcing his way into La Noblesse , looking like the wrath of God , or the son of some Pictish chieftain , and demanding , ‘ Hyacinth ! |
| 14 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 15 | Aikin notes that the cotton industry had just come to the town . |
| 16 | ‘ This particular bird 's just come to the Zoo . |
| 17 | Is the implication of what you 've just said to the Chairman that you agree with Mr Allenby that this animal is a different one than anything that might go to an I five site ? |
| 18 | They 've just turned to the zone game after generations of the sweeper system . |
| 19 | just bombed to the ground ! |
| 20 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |
| 21 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 22 | He walked slowly back to his gallery-duties , by this time in the afternoon virtually non-existent — and had just got to the top of the stairs when he saw Gooseneck advancing towards him carrying a large package . |
| 23 | They had just got to the part about Dora 's Naughty Friend . |
| 24 | I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’ |
| 25 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 26 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 27 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 28 | Birkenhead , the chairman of the committee , which had produced rather limp conclusions , is reported to have broken an awed silence to announce that if the Prime Minister spoke to the House as he had just spoken to the Cabinet he would do so with unanimous support and triumphant outcome . |
| 29 | WITH the ice cracking and groaning underfoot and the wind etching their faces , Robert Swan stood at the North Pole and turned to the woman for whom he had just walked to the end of the earth . |
| 30 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |