Example sentences of "a [noun sg] just [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 2 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 3 | If you ca n't use a sprinkler , draw back a little of the top soil to form a ridge just beyond the spread of the branches around each plant — like a saucer . |
| 4 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 5 | He dreamed that he was amongst dark waters , on a mudbank just above the surface . |
| 6 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 7 | Lives with an elderly father in a cottage just outside the village . |
| 8 | Playing in the third game of the 24 match round Robin stage of the tournament , Ireland were actually left to contemplate the spectre of extra time as Italy came back with a try just before the finish . |
| 9 | The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company , which owns the ferry , said the vessel struck a quayside just above the waterline , crushing the hull inwards , in the accident on Wednesday . |
| 10 | The scar goes right up to his elbow and he got it in a fight just like the scar he 's going to have round his throat . ’ |
| 11 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 12 | Manager and the Admin team are based at Burston in a bungalow just across the road from the mill . |
| 13 | For example , in 1984 10 Carmelite nuns gained the support of the Archdiocese of Krakow to establish a convent just outside the walls of Auschwitz but in 1987 a number of leading Polish Catholics accepted that this was offensive to Jews and that the convent should be relocated . |
| 14 | Dr Joseph Wybran , the head of the Belgian Auschwitz Committee , who had campaigned for the removal of an order of Carmelite nuns from a convent just outside the perimeter of the former Birkenau extermination camp , was shot in the head outside Brussels University Hospital on Wednesday . |
| 15 | She stuck a piece of adhesive tape round it to stop the needle from coming out and hung the bottle on to a hook just over the dog . |
| 16 | The first one came out of a mouth just under the right epaulette . |
| 17 | This time , we succeeded and indeed met no difficulties apart from one awkward step across a gap just before the cairn . |
| 18 | Yet the bed looked clean-sheeted and felt comfortable ; and there was a lavatory just along the corridor ( the lady had said ) , a bathroom one floor down , and a Residents ' TV Lounge beside Reception . |
| 19 | the single motifs can be placed almost anywhere ; the centre-back of a jacket just above the hem , just above the cuffs on the sleeves , just below the shoulder seams on both sides of the jacket fronts or centre-back/centre-front of a skirt just above the hem . |
| 20 | It is perched on top of a rock just off the Normandy coast and is connected to the mainland by a causeway ( 435 ) . |
| 21 | When was the last time you drove a car just for the thrill of it ? |
| 22 | Portsmouth , needing only a draw , made certain of going through with a second just before the interval . |
| 23 | Quinn nearly got a second just before the break but this time Kavavaev was equal to a close-range effort after Gerry Taggart had provided the opportunity with a bustling header . |
| 24 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 25 | It skidded to a halt just inside the edge . |
| 26 | As Ross came to a halt just inside the open french windows , their silk curtains billowing softly in the light breeze , the dark evening sky outside provided a dramatic background to his tall , broad-shouldered figure . |
| 27 | The offensive has driven the majority Muslim population out of town and nearly 10,000 are crammed into a village just to the south , according to UN officials . |
| 28 | ( It is much easier to imagine a single ‘ chunk ’ of space in which all possible universes can exist ; but we must remember that time is a dimension just like the other three . ) |
| 29 | A point just below the big toe . |
| 30 | Well I 'm probably regarded as being of a point just to the right of Ghengis Khan on these matters . |