Example sentences of "[vb past] just the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 2 | Branson found just the man he was looking for in James Kingsley , Professor of English Studies at Nottingham University . |
| 3 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 4 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 5 | We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under . |
| 6 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 7 | In contrast alto Ameral Gunson , replacing Carolyn Watkinson , grew with the performance and her recitative The Man That Was Lame conveyed just the right tone . |
| 8 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 9 | One group received just the sentence , while another group heard ‘ disambiguating input ’ through a channel they were not explicitly attending to ( i.e. an additional sentence such as ‘ He extinguished the lantern ’ ) . |
| 10 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 11 | News about this dynamic activist was sent back to the Gold Coast , and he seemed just the man they needed to organise a political organisation to associate a mass following with the upper-middle-class political elite , who were already restless within the confines of the Burns constitution . |
| 12 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 13 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 14 | The cluster erm I was always very aware of this bit so it made me you know aware that there are things you can do and watching everybody just seemed just the answer inside you . |
| 15 | Oh yeah , we raced just the same even though we had to do it early , so that some of them leave , and we started at sometimes half past eleven . |
| 16 | Stella did n't ; she nodded just the same . |
| 17 | It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 18 | It all happened just the day before and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 19 | Jon Tiplady and daughter Gale ( + 3 ) , from Four Marks , lost just the one game ( to the Tipladys ) to take runners-up spot . |
| 20 | So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well . |
| 21 | In it they brought just the right weight of balance to each part , to each phrase , to each note . |
| 22 | I felt just the same after my own mother 's death when my father mentioned her . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you and Father probably felt just the same , so you 'll understand , wo n't you ? ’ — blunt perhaps , but honest . |
| 24 | But Ken proceeded just the same . |
| 25 | Although it is Neil Armstrong who will be forever immortalised in the history books , his ‘ One small step for a man , one giant leap for Mankind ’ represented just the tip of a huge pyramid of courage , research and dedication by the foremost scientific brainpower the human race has ever mustered . |
| 26 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 27 | Debbie disappeared just the same and then rang to ask for the money . |
| 28 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 29 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 30 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |