Example sentences of "[adv] just [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball is then put in position , perhaps just ahead of centre , with the same feeling of trying to follow the chalk mark . |
| 2 | We all know that dreadful ‘ it 's on the tip of my tongue ’ feeling when a name with which we are perfectly familiar remains tantalisingly just out of reach . |
| 3 | He carried the curved steel tray over to the cage and set it down just out of reach , leaving it in view as he went back for a chair . |
| 4 | It finished only just ahead of the Alliance poll of 26 per cent ( which produced for them only seventeen Liberal and six SDP seats ) . |
| 5 | Only just out of their teens , they can — and do — earn millions of dollars a year , mostly with exclusive contracts to international cosmetic and fashion houses . |
| 6 | Under his gaze she had to go to the sitting-room where she had slept , while he knew why she went and knelt by the sleeping-bag , which was only just out of his line of sight . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry — I 'm only just out of bed . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 9 | He was not just ahead of his times , but a timeless figure whose prophetic words were cast as perceptive wit . |
| 10 | SPARKS WILL be flying at Embsay this Saturday … and not just out of the chimney of their band of battling Yorkshire tank engines . |
| 11 | Not just out of polite attention , but trying to see how Gillian would turn out . |
| 12 | ‘ As the shier and more uncertain of the two brothers , his problem was n't to be wimpish but to be funny , and he knew immediately that the comedy had to come up out of the character , not just out of what he said . |
| 13 | My Passport was kept disconcertingly just out of reach . |
| 14 | The diet industry thrives on the promise of transformation and perfection always held tantalizingly just out of reach . |
| 15 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 16 | He looked at the hillside across the river , where the moving masses had halted , still just out of range even for the most expert , to redress their line . |
| 17 | The figure was always just ahead of him , crouched low but quick and stealthy . |
| 18 | Blues singer Greg Allman is put to good use as the big bad dealer at the centre of events , a weighty presence always just out of reach . |
| 19 | Rave is a corrupting virus in the double helix , tatty construx that hint at a moon-booted , gold lamé future which is always just out of reach . |
| 20 | Perfection is always just out of reach , yet constantly sought . |
| 21 | The thought of the hotel seemed like the mirage of an oasis , something always just out of reach . |
| 22 | Last year 's winners , Kilroot finished runner up just ahead of Ballynure Presbyterian . |
| 23 | This undemanding life-cycle had never been disrupted and I read the new lecture list partly just out of habit and partly for the simple pleasure of seeing my name in print . |
| 24 | It 's not pulling it out just out of thin air |
| 25 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 26 | But if we had not been advancing properly — being there just ahead of the main party to iron out any difficulties — the result could have been a very serious error in terms of local coverage , with potentially unhappy consequences . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |