Example sentences of "had be [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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1 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
2 | It was a neat description by a commander who had been forewarned of just this certainty . |
3 | Mr Gough said that the merger discussions had been completed in just three weeks . |
4 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
5 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
6 | A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door . |
7 | At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years . |
8 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
9 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
10 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |