Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Call the newspapers , ’ she croaked , ‘ I 've just broken every bloody speed record in swimming . |
| 2 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 3 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 4 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 5 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 6 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 7 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right . |
| 9 | It has just completed a successful trial with one major high street bank and is convinced that others , anxious to cut costs , will share in the enthusiasm . |
| 10 | The Rail , Maritime and Transport Union ( RMT ) has just completed a national ballot asking members , including around 260 at Harwich , whether they support industrial action . |
| 11 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 12 | The band have little spare time on their hands , they 've just completed a 50 date tour and have recorded a session for the Bob Harris Radio One show which goes out from Monday April 13th–16th , one song each night . |
| 13 | I have just completed a randomised study of 24 patients receiving oral hypoglycaemic agents , in which I compared the glycaemic control ( as indicated by monthly assay of fructosamine ) of a group allocated to self monitoring of blood glucose and a similar group who tested their urine . |
| 14 | THE YOUNG PEOPLE 'S Leisure and Lifestyles project based in the Department of Education at the University of Aberdeen has just completed a seven-year study . |
| 15 | I 've just completed a 16,000 mile trip around the US , carrying a Dell notebook that weighed about 7lb , and believe me , the difference is impressive . |
| 16 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 17 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 18 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 19 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 20 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just received an important telex . |
| 22 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 23 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 24 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 25 | ICI has just developed a new composite widely touted to be a likely contender ; it is now undergoing clinical trials at Liverpool University . |
| 26 | Suppose , first , that a company has just developed a new product with an estimated life-cycle as shown in table 5.1 . |
| 27 | She added : ‘ I did n't see anything , just heard a loud noise , and suddenly my home was on fire . |
| 28 | We have just heard the usual mixture of muddle , confusion and gloom to which we have become accustomed from the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) , who tries every year to prove that more equals less . |
| 29 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 30 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |