Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 2 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 3 | Arms and fists raised like a footballer who 's just scored a goal , Austin Currie took his kudos , from the audience of 500 in the packed conference hall of the Slieve Donard Hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 6 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 7 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 8 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 9 | But the needs of a child who has just vacated a cot and , say , a sturdy 12-year-old are very different and ideally beds should be changed as a child grows , about every four or five years . |
| 10 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 11 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I can easily understand how people can see seals as dewy-eyed little things but if you 're a fisherman who has just had 200 creels robbed and you have n't even made enough money to pay for your fuel never mind make a living , you would view them differently . |
| 13 | ( e ) Sometimes invite a student to write on the blackboard , eg to write out a dictation you have just given . |
| 14 | At least those present will have the comforting knowledge that they will be voting on the future of a team which has just ascended the summit of the Scottish Second Division , although that must be considered more of a Ben Nevis than an Everest of the football world . |
| 15 | An angler removes a fish he has just landed at Old Windsor . |
| 16 | It would inflict special damage on a person who had just posted a business letter the purpose of which would be defeated by any exceptional delay . |
| 17 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 18 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 19 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 20 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 21 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 22 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 23 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
| 24 | I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . |
| 25 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 26 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 27 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 28 | To get a replacement kidney , patients must either find somebody willing to part with one of their 's or get one transplanted from a donor who has just died . |
| 29 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 30 | He seemed very streetwise for a kid who had just left school . |