Example sentences of "just [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just just for a couple of weekends to see how many actual calls we do get . |
| 2 | What I 'd like you to do now is er , just for a couple of minutes , informally with the people sitting next to you , see if you can list as many channels as you can under those second two headings , okay ? |
| 3 | we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days |
| 4 | Just for a couple of nights in Dieppe : though I sometimes take the car and get down to Rouen . |
| 5 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | It would do her psyche good to get away from here , even just for a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills . |
| 8 | And if you 're building a long flight , it can always be broken up with separate landings , either where the flight changes direction , or just for a change of pace . |
| 9 | just for a bit of revision . |
| 10 | Just for a bit of fun . |
| 11 | I think we can go back just for a final to White Hart Lane , and join up with Nick Harris — got his breath back now Nick , I think a tremendous afternoon though for you . |
| 12 | ‘ The hospital is for patients , not just for a load of hangers-on . ’ |
| 13 | Just as a heap of sand is composed of individual grains , so electromagnetic radiation has a bitty structure ; one never finds fractions of fry but only one , or a thousand , or a million , of these granules of energy . |
| 14 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 15 | Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed . |
| 16 | Emily might be able to persuade the supplier to call the debt in , just as a favour of course , then Hari would need money at once , she would have no choice but to throw in her lot with Emily . |
| 17 | And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter . |
| 18 | This optimism would be undermined by the Dust-Bowl of the 1930s , which showed that the destruction of the soil made possible by farming would have a permanent effect on the land , just as a follower of Warming 's more materialistic approach might have predicted . |
| 19 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 20 | After starting in the pillbox , they moved out into the rain on the grounds that they were Irish , and came wonderfully just as a shaft of sun broke through and warmed them , too poetical , too symbolic , too fucking marvellous for words , crooned Jessica . |
| 21 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 22 | Now , ’ Thiercelin took out notebook and pencil , ‘ just as a matter of routine , might I ask you to relate once again the circumstances of Herr Hamnett 's business with you ? ’ |
| 23 | But , if so , it will be just as a matter of fact . |
| 24 | We welcome people from every party , it does n't really matter which party , or even if they belong to no party , who are just committed to seeing a representative representation , seeing more women in there , because women in this country , just as a matter of fact , have a rather different experience from most men , and if you 're making a decision then you want there the people who have had a wide range of experience , who can bring that experience to bear on making the decision . |
| 25 | He would probably slip in at the last minute , just as a matter of duty . |
| 26 | Now , just as a matter of interest , whilst I remember , how are we off for manuscript paper ? |
| 27 | Just as a matter of interest , what were you doing on Sunday ? ’ |
| 28 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 29 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
| 30 | Could I ask Mr Chairman , just as a matter of interest , it 's first community care as much as I , , really , erm , what , what if any , erm , alteration will there be to the volunt to volunteers that continue at the moment , will |