Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | India-May had called him Lumberjack because his bark sounded just like someone sawing wood . |
| 2 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 3 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 4 | He reached out and looped his arm around her waist , his fingers splayed just beneath her breast . |
| 5 | His mouth hovered just over hers . |
| 6 | His knees jutted just out of reach in the low black vinyl chair opposite her , and somehow this made her tongue feel like cotton wool . |
| 7 | Suddenly , one of his recordings sounds just like one of his stupendous live performances and shows him for what he really is : one of the all-time great conductors . |
| 8 | But Mr Arthur Chance will never forget the time one of his prodigies did just that . |
| 9 | His eyes darkened just a little . |
| 10 | Maybe they felt his concentration had just waned a little bit late on but he 's er he 's had a good game he should be very pleased with his contribution . |
| 11 | He sounded like a man who was trying to be brave after his marriage had just fallen apart . |
| 12 | Her eyes were drawn , as they so often were , to his portrait hanging just outside the Director 's office . |
| 13 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 14 | He 's sitting next to me in a late night eaterie in Manchester talking into a tape recorder because he and his band have just released a song called ‘ Creep ’ that 's threatening to be one of the highlights of the year . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | The king slept half-armed in his tent , the remainder of his plate-armour massed just within the entrance , and his lance with its pennant fixed upright in the turf outside . |
| 17 | But on occasions he stopped in his tracks to wonder just what he was doing here , amidst all this elegance and opulence , numbering the rich and famous and powerful amongst his clients — and his friends . |
| 18 | European Minister Tristan Garel-Jones embraced Mr Ryder as though his team had just scored the winning goal in a Wembley Cup Final . |
| 19 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 20 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 21 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 22 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 23 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 24 | One 6′ 7″ hunk collapsed during the birth in a dead faint and another stalwart demanded the morphine his wife had just refused . |
| 25 | He and his wife have just arrived here . ’ |
| 26 | I expect his wife 's just had a baby . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Duke ( his temper not improved by his wife having just been refused the style of HRH ) thought that Baldwin had already done well enough out of the events six months before , without an entitlement to further expressions of fulsome goodwill . |
| 28 | The discomfort would go , and it did , and he slid down , his head resting just above the thick lace of foam . |
| 29 | The announcement of his departure came just one day after Barclays revealed that it is to look outside the bank for a new chief executive to take over some of the powers presently held by chairman and chief executive , Andrew Buxton . |
| 30 | Instead his minders offered just enough to keep the hacks occupied , mainly in transcribing undecipherable tape recordings snatched on carefully marshalled visits , whose symbolism was either crassly self-evident or completely obscure . |