Example sentences of "were [verb] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as if that was n't difficult enough , they were given just six hours to put together the entire production . |
| 2 | Enterprises were given just three hours from the start of business on Jan. 23 to hand over such notes from their cash floats to banks . |
| 3 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 4 | Similarly , although trusts were reminded just one year ago of their obligation to abide by the manpower approvals procedures relating to non-consultant career grades , some have established posts clearly intending them to be outside the controls incorporated in Achieving a Balance . |
| 5 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 6 | Most councils were doing just that . |
| 7 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 8 | Around the country small groups were doing just that . |
| 9 | Franco interpreted as threatening anything that escaped his personal control , and by May 1941 he had begun to feel that Serrano and his collaborators were doing just that . |
| 10 | Fifteen minutes later they were doing just that . |
| 11 | ‘ You were doing just fine without me . ’ |
| 12 | We were talking just last night about how the people here seem to love us , and I said , ‘ Well , I do n't really take that personally — more that we were connected with a happening . ’ |
| 13 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 14 | The first signs of contamination were discovered just 18 months ago . |