Example sentences of "just [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just received an important telex . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ICI has just developed a new composite widely touted to be a likely contender ; it is now undergoing clinical trials at Liverpool University . |
| 15 | Suppose , first , that a company has just developed a new product with an estimated life-cycle as shown in table 5.1 . |
| 16 | She added : ‘ I did n't see anything , just heard a loud noise , and suddenly my home was on fire . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) Bleasdale Computers ( Harvard OTC ) " The company has just arranged a major deal with British Telecom who will market and supply their computers . |
| 18 | We have just witnessed an old lady 's strangling and a silly tailor imprisoned in squalor who , in a few hours ’ time , will be burnt horribly to death . |
| 19 | Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run . |
| 20 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 21 | A couple who make medieval musical instruments have just won a fifty thousand pound order from the Far East . |
| 22 | These contented residents at Orchard House can relax knowing that staff here have just won a major safety award . |
| 23 | With the help of a similar system , the right-wing Union for France has just won a sweeping majority in a French general election . |
| 24 | It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature . |
| 25 | Holmes looked like a man who has just won an important game . |
| 26 | Somebody , somewhere , has probably just telephoned an old friend by mistake . |
| 27 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
| 28 | The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year . |
| 29 | This American menswear firm , of totally different culture and nature , has just reported a vestigial half-year profit of $1.5 million . |
| 30 | The Homicide Act requires evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control : this is wide enough to include things said or done by persons other than the deceased , and acts done against persons other than D ( e.g. where D is provoked to kill someone who has just committed a sexual offence upon D 's son , daughter , wife , etc . ) . |