Example sentences of "up just " in BNC.

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1 I got up and had another little walk around , finishing up just over the road from Buckingham Palace .
2 They wind people up just to see their reaction , ’ Ramsden said , confirming that Travelling Light was absolutely fine .
3 Much other printed ephemera can be picked up just as cheaply , a boon market for collectors sharp enough to spot history mirrored in the disposable scraps of everyday life .
4 ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one .
5 Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside .
6 There are no comparable differences in Britain , where any kind of player may turn up just about anywhere .
7 Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’
8 When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’
9 They rang up just now .
10 I think black music and dance have given a lot of kids a break , but I 'd like to see the kind of dance I 'm into opened up just as much . ’
11 Unsettled by the riddle , Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace .
12 Jet lag caught up just once .
13 Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way .
14 Britain woke up just in time .
15 ‘ She knows she has a baby — is she giving him up just like that ?
16 One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded .
17 Her only other fashion rule is always to make sure her shoes and tights are the same colour , making her 5ft 5 inches seem to stretch up just a little further .
18 It comes up just short of the green , but he can putt it and he says , ‘ I can take four putts from here and still win . ’
19 Would you believe he took the claret jug Open trophy to a New York jewellers and had an exact copy made up just for me ?
20 He looked up just as Mary turned , and let out an exclamation .
21 Over the last twenty years , women have made up just under 50 per cent of all convicted shoplifters .
22 Jack eventually got up just before dawn , and went to the window .
23 They were held up just north of the city , repairs on the line , and by the time he reached the house on Mahogany Drive it was n't early any more , it was after midnight .
24 He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill .
25 We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped .
26 ‘ The monitors were just killing us , and we ended up just turning them all off .
27 Of course , if you want to perform with it then you can mike it up just as easily as any other guitar , but it 's really a player 's instrument — a guitar for the kitchen , if you like .
28 It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it .
29 If there is , please give up just a little time for them .
30 Steven Clark gave himself up just hours after five-months ' pregnant Kelly Hitchcock died .
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