Example sentences of "[vb past] just [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 2 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 3 | But the pressure is on to re-create past glories , to think big like the extraordinary Grand Hotel in East Berlin , built just a few years ago . |
| 4 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 5 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 6 | This PCR analysis ( Fig. 3 ) revealed just a single variants of α , corresponding in size ( 644 bp ) to that lacking P3A . |
| 7 | But that broke the spell , of course , and the lovely fairy tree became just an ordinary baby fir . |
| 8 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 9 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 11 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
| 12 | But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty . |
| 13 | In contrast alto Ameral Gunson , replacing Carolyn Watkinson , grew with the performance and her recitative The Man That Was Lame conveyed just the right tone . |
| 14 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
| 15 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 16 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 17 | We made it a bit more Kinks-y and added just a little bit of flamenco , but how can you improve a great song like that ? ’ |
| 18 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 19 | The explosions seemed just a few yards away . |
| 20 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , we raced just the same even though we had to do it early , so that some of them leave , and we started at sometimes half past eleven . |
| 22 | Stella did n't ; she nodded just the same . |
| 23 | The seven-plus immediately came under renewed fire after the results showed just a slight improvement in spelling , reading and maths and a 12 per cent drop in writing skills since the tests were first held last year . |
| 24 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 25 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
| 26 | He and his family escaped just a few days before the Nazi invasion , abandoning all their property and possessions . |
| 27 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 28 | Jon Tiplady and daughter Gale ( + 3 ) , from Four Marks , lost just the one game ( to the Tipladys ) to take runners-up spot . |
| 29 | So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well . |
| 30 | The second accident involved an 18ft boat which capsized just a few yards off the Lincolnshire coast . |