Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was frustrated , angry and moody and realised then just how much tennis meant to me . |
| 2 | So I put her bicycle in the boot of my car and got here just after nine . |
| 3 | I slunk through the dealing room to Patterson 's office and got there just as he did . |
| 4 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 5 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
| 6 | Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure . |
| 7 | Ruthven was placed in the chamber next to ours and came upstairs just after us . |
| 8 | After starting in the pillbox , they moved out into the rain on the grounds that they were Irish , and came wonderfully just as a shaft of sun broke through and warmed them , too poetical , too symbolic , too fucking marvellous for words , crooned Jessica . |
| 9 | You just equate to save you time and effort and hard work and going home just feel like this . |
| 10 | If preferred the lemon treacle tart can be completely cooked a day ahead and reheated gently just before serving . |
| 11 | Peter McEnery and Dorothy Tutin ( above ) play the middle-aged ex-lovers who iron out the wrinkles and get together just in time for the final curtain . |
| 12 | Once , a still photograph had slipped from its frame , and lay enticingly just inside the gate . |
| 13 | The differences between private and public companies are significant , and go beyond just the size and name requirements stipulated by the legislation . |
| 14 | All went fine , and we were very chuffed and thrilled , until the producer of the show started to say , ‘ Well , of course , you acted with belted raincoats and the berets and it 's all very sweet , but maybe we could start to take off the belted raincoat , and leave perhaps just the fishnet tights … . ’ |
| 15 | They can be given by passing laws , and taken away just as easily . |
| 16 | She was carrying a shopping bag and had evidently just returned from town . |
| 17 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 18 | She still had n't spoken and had only just , so she thought , heard his name . |
| 19 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 20 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |
| 21 | But it has made us more productive and more of a team — we all have to co-operate and pull together just to keep our heads above water . ’ |
| 22 | It looks like he just and come here just to get a book . |
| 23 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 24 | The two men who came in were old friends of hers , rich American connoisseurs who had made their home in Paris before the war and left only just in time . |
| 25 | They went to give emergency help during the height of the oilspill disaster and have only just returned after setting up an animal hospital . |
| 26 | The leaves , roots , stems , flowers and fruiting parts act as one and work together just like the bodies of humans and other species . |