Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] just [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa . |
| 2 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 3 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 4 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 5 | The CSIRO has just applied for a worldwide patent for its use as a fumigant . |
| 6 | Your child has just appeared at a Children 's Hearing and the members of the Panel have decided that your child should be placed on supervision to a social worker and that he/she should live away from home for a time . |
| 7 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 8 | TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest . |
| 9 | ANOTHER rugby season has just drawn to a close and many followers of the game in Ulster are asking questions about the future . |
| 10 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 11 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 12 | Iain had just bitten into a cheese sandwich and his mouth was full , so I do n't think she heard him properly . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise . |
| 14 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 15 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 16 | The English couple had just pulled into a motel car park with two friends for a two-week holiday in the Disneyworld resort of Orlando . |
| 17 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |