Example sentences of "[verb] just [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No player , with the single exception of Ian Botham , is photographed or talked about more than Graham Gooch , whose story has just been reliably and thoroughly told by Ivo Tennant in a book boldly entitled Graham Gooch , The Biography ( £15.99 ) . |
| 2 | This is no time to hesitate , though , for however dazed , withdrawn , emotional , restless , irritable or distant she may seem , she is as urgently in need of help as someone who has just been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 3 | A four-week pilot course in Cardiff has just been successfully completed . |
| 4 | This duly arrived and the five hour Test Programme has just been successfully completed at the farm strip at Weston Underwood where Midge is presently ‘ stationed ’ She has company too — her stable mate is a Tiger Moth : G-AMHF . |
| 5 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 6 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 7 | But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky . |
| 8 | AN HISTORIC wooden bodies railway coach B14 has just been completely dismantled and rebuilt as new by AMARC Limited , Birkenhead for the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . |
| 9 | The role played by the CIA and US State Department officials in the 1965-1966 bloodbath in Indonesia has just been meticulously documented in stories run in The Washington Post , The Boston Globe and other quality US daily newspapers . |
| 10 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 11 | It has just been too long . |
| 12 | The task has just been too great but perhaps some enthusiastic committed person may take it on , with back up from the Village Association . |
| 13 | The number of pollums , plastics , medicines , has just been quite fantastic , but not the sudden flash of light , but the slow progress of a lot of people working together . |
| 14 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 15 | Because the people we produced just were n't any good any more . |
| 16 | Cos I says what you doing still working here , you know , that 's what we 'd just been on about |
| 17 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 18 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |
| 19 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 20 | The foals will play together , eat grass together , sleep together , and enjoy just being together : they develop affection for each other . |
| 21 | erm because basically the answer was because it meant finding erm making some new cash contribution to a hundred million word National Corpus for the nation , rather than , as it were , ‘ selling it ’ in inverted commas , the Corpus material which Collins , through the Birmingham University already have at their disposal , and the gap between the material that they could contribute to the project in kind and the erm role we wanted them to play just was n't compatible . |
| 22 | Tip just was n't my kind of dog at all . |
| 23 | But out there forms just are n't there . |
| 24 | So that I think , had the subject been injustice , it would have just been just as er , exciting as justice , fact or fiction . |
| 25 | And erm , one day we had friends round , and I went into the loo it stinks of smoke in here , it was really bizarre , and I , I went , and sort of just thought oh , and then I went in again , and I really did smell , and I thought , this is really odd , and so when I came out here I said , did anyone else smell smoke in the ba in the bathroom , and they said oh yeah , I could smell cigarette smoke , and then , it must have just been upstairs , and it wafted down , and in through ours , cos there was no one else really around . |
| 26 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 27 | You could make some alarming enemies if you do n't modify your behaviour and the price you will pay just is n't worth it . |
| 28 | Copying just is n't artistic ! |
| 29 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 30 | It 's not much after what you 've just been through , but I 'd hate to end up in a French jail and , as I forgot my licence , I 'm not insured to move this car . ’ |