Example sentences of "just [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it
2 Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner .
3 ‘ Maybe you just bring out the worst in me ! ’
4 So I just made up a face , drew it for them .
5 She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’
6 ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’
7 The special tube shapes for the rocket are achieved by baking cake mixture in empty food cans just make up the required raw cake quantity as shown in the chart on page 12 .
8 Just rub in a little every night and morning and make child 's play out of keeping your skin looking young .
9 I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP !
10 The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight .
11 ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase .
12 The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks .
13 Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car .
14 I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive .
15 As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible .
16 Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell .
17 Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat .
18 The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door .
19 Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable .
20 The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose .
21 Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon .
22 At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him .
23 Someone upstairs is playing a record — I can just make out the thumping of the drum .
24 As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ .
25 Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark .
26 If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack .
27 Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard .
28 The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it .
29 He could just make out the chicken .
30 I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other .
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