Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only just twenty . |
| 2 | I 'm only just glad we ca n't I du n no then son . |
| 3 | From Becher 's second-time I was always just struggling , though jumping the third-last I was in the right position and had every chance . |
| 4 | ‘ I was there just this morning , as it happens . |
| 5 | I was only just eight . |
| 6 | I started to shrink … smaller … and smaller … until I was only just bigger than Sam , my soldier . |
| 7 | I was only just able to take care of myself so further responsibility I could not take . |
| 8 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't see why not — after all I was only just twenty-one when I married Mark . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Is there any legislation or codes of practice covering circular letters of this kind , which are effectively just another form of advertising ? ’ |
| 11 | It is true that public relations contrives news and events and gets photographs in newspapers which are really just promotional efforts . |
| 12 | We need to be aware that ‘ rules ’ ( which are really just agreed-on conventions ) are changing all the time , particularly since the line between inner voices and outer voices has become blurred . |
| 13 | You conduct most of the important interviews and interrogations yourself and afterwards you dictate very sketchy accounts which are only just adequate to keep the files up to date . ’ |
| 14 | My other music influence was Western Swing , which is really just white man 's blues , so I decided that the only way to make a living in France was to play that kind of music . |
| 15 | Version 5 , which is only just available , will , no doubt , bring even more choices and I look forward to exploring it . |
| 16 | Which was probably just green cheese . |
| 17 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 18 | YOU ARE NOW JUST 1 WEEK AWAY FROM NEXT WEEK 'S RATHER NORMAL NON-BIRTHDAY ISSUE |
| 19 | ‘ You 're both just little boys ! ’ |
| 20 | Rather than still , you 're only just six . |
| 21 | " She 's probably just tired after the party … " |
| 22 | ‘ But darling , she 's only just eighteen , ’ Nora said to Louise , ‘ and she 's not trained for anything . |
| 23 | not , not even like in the right situation , she 's like just aggressive all the time and nobody particularly gets on with her or likes her because of this . |
| 24 | So we think : is she saying that behind the glamour and the adulation , especially from young girls , she is really just one of them ? |
| 25 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 26 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 27 | ‘ We do not have the chosen squad , and we are here just one day before the tournament , ’ he said . |
| 28 | It 's an extraordianry co-incidence that we 're literally just two or three hundred yeards away from eachother ! |
| 29 | cos we 're only just finishing . |
| 30 | The diversity of form and behaviour among the several thousand species of fish in the world is enormous , but there are probably just two , very different , examples of tool use among them . |