Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] just " in BNC.

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1 The managing director is paid top market rates for the job but the dynamic American parent company has given him just one warning : ‘ If your employees strike , you 're fired . ’
2 But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need .
3 ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’
4 Asked what he felt about the nominal fine , he replied , " Not a lot , " before heading to the practice ground to repair a swing which has won him just £8,750 this season .
5 This survey suggests that the Health Department has got it just about right .
6 ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear …
7 It has taken her just 24 months to learn the rules .
8 It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time .
9 We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear .
10 Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed .
11 ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed him he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title .
12 ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson .
13 From Rome Leopold related the now famous story of how his son wrote out Allegri 's Miserere , having heard it just once in the Sistine Chapel ; on 8 July Pope Clement XIV conferred upon Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur .
14 I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author .
15 ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’
16 She said , ‘ I think you would probably have scolded me just as hard , Mr Langley , ’ and then she gathered up her handbag and rose to her feet .
17 They 'd have terminated me just to get rid of a nuisance .
18 I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages .
19 If I had n't found the girl of my frigging dreams , I 'd have screwed her just as happily .
20 Yes , I told the King of imminent danger but , given the way he charged round his kingdom in the dead of night , even the court fool could have warned him just as accurately . ’
21 ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian .
22 This year he seems to have got it just about right .
23 Last night had taught her just how important he 'd become .
24 Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first .
25 If they 're opposite to each other the same type of idea , you 've named it just one in If you draw is
26 If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family .
27 The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right .
28 If you 've got them just check them that they 're there alright .
29 thing , for twenty four quid for a hundred and eight weeks , you 've got , you 've got to take that , think it 's coming on and learning , got the thing in there , start to progress it might get you , it 's gon na get to the point where he says right , you know you 've got them just about to sort of labour it 's , you know , accurately with a fair amount of speed now we 'll start sort of now being a bit adventurous , gon na get a lot more interesting .
30 It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right .
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