Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] just " in BNC.

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1 Yet , despite dominating the line-out and even pushing England over their own line for a try just before halftime , they still turned round 10–7 in arrears .
2 We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it .
3 I went out for a drink just after seven — at the Sir Richard Steele on Haverstock Hill .
4 She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again .
5 I 've left the beds open for a bit just so we can
6 ‘ They came for a weekend just before we left Starlings . ’
7 He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle .
8 Her stepfather , Robert Simpson , had bought the battered and bomb-damaged house for a song just after the war .
9 ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again .
10 We sat for a while just watching and listening to the water and turned back to follow the path out of the steep-sided gill towards Cotterdale .
11 It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company .
12 There was oak and that did n't have as much work as mahogany and then there was er what they call the I do n't know whether you 'll ever have remembered seeing it but there was a fashion for a while just bef in the thirties what they called limed oak .
13 Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come .
14 You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there .
15 That way you can cook and store the right amounts for a meal just for you .
16 ‘ One does not go out for a meal just for the food , ’ he added , hardly improving the situation .
17 They had originally offered £100,000 for Fox , who asked relegated Rovers for a move just before he left on the Lions tour Down Under in May .
18 But for those who came from the youth system OR came as youngsters/inexperienced — they do nt get that money , and one day might ask for a move just to get that one lump sum .
19 He went for a job just after leaving school and the guy at the interview asked him if he 'd ever encountered prejudice and he said , ‘ Well , sometimes . ’
20 David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away .
21 We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut .
22 What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park .
23 I had to go to Leeds for a show just after my return from Calcutta , he said , and there really was n't much to choose between them .
24 For a leasehold just the offers over eighty five thousand .
25 We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment .
26 Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings .
27 She went up the stairs two Levels , dodged across a gangpath to another stair and went up that five Levels , and finally , across another gangpath and she leapt for a lift just leaving .
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