Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The M 1 in Northamptonshire was designed to carry just over 8000 heavy goods vehicles a week by 1979 . |
| 2 | Steve , named Child of Achievement last year , was expected to reach just 3ft 6ins before the surgeons began their work . |
| 3 | Finance Minister Barend J. du Plessis in his budget speech on March 14 , 1990 , announced expenditure of R72,900 million ( an increase of 9.7 per cent over the 1989/90 budget — see p. 36915 ) ; revenue was expected to reach just under R65,000 million , up by 7.3 per cent on the previous year , leaving a deficit before borrowing which amounted to 2.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 4 | A typical half embryo was seen to emerge just as if an older embryo had been sliced in two with a razor . |
| 5 | With a top speed of 8. knots ( around miles per hour to land lubbers ) , the wooden boat was built to withstand just about every weather condition at sea . |
| 6 | The giant Widnes forward was told to retire just before last month 's Silk Cut Challenge Cup final because of a neck injury . |
| 7 | He was told to say just who he was working for , or he would have ammonia poured onto the blindfold . |
| 8 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 9 | And she was n't such a push-over she was going to melt just because she 'd fallen in love with a man with a heart of ice . |
| 10 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 11 | It was timed to explode just 30 minutes later but because of a blunder the detonator failed to explode — the capital 's second lucky escape in just 16 days . |
| 12 | I was expecting to discover just the radiation that Zeldovich and Starobinsky had predicted from rotating black holes . |
| 13 | He was beginning to sound just like Hugh , Robbie thought resentfully , ordering her about . |
| 14 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 15 | Survival was the name of the game and I was managing to do just that . |
| 16 | However on this occasion a Swordfish ( P4232 ‘ A ’ ) was lost when Lt. N.K. Cambell 's aircraft was hit by A.A. fire and he was forced to ditch just off the coast ; he and his observer managed to swim ashore , and were subsequently captured , but the TAG , P.O. ( A ) W.G.T. Welsh succumbed to injuries sustained . |
| 17 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |
| 18 | ‘ I will show you all the best of Roma , ’ he 'd announced with a modest smile , and , to be kind , Caroline supposed he was trying to do just that . |