Example sentences of "with just the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the box , with just the top of the barrel showing , was a single-barrelled shotgun . |
| 2 | If each area could provide itself with just the quantity of the good that it requires , these deadweight losses could be avoided . |
| 3 | With just the ghost of a headwind , our only method of going about was either by dragging our bows round with ten men furiously paddling the dugout canoe , or simply by drifting into the opposite shore and poling our bowsprit off whatever fulcrum presented itself . |
| 4 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 5 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 6 | ‘ Sh-sh ! ’ she whispered , with just the hint of the Rachel giggle in it . |
| 7 | ‘ People come to me sometimes , ’ I continue , speaking quietly , with just the trace of an American-Italian accent — that shambling mumble that Marlon Brando used in the Godfather . |
| 8 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 9 | He 's now tetraplegic with just the use of his arms . |