Example sentences of "[be] just [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Pop-ins ’ are just for tea and a chat .
2 It , it 's also a chain , from what you 're going on about , people regarding the service , I mean everyone 's had a bit , not just the erm , it , it 's the purchase managers more than the er , people who pay our premiums , they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we do n't pay the service , or put a big ones maybe , they 'll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine , so they 'll order an item for tomorrow morning , well they 're not to blame for the service , T N T's to blame for the service if we do n't get it erm ,
3 I was in a wine bar the other day and it was just before the opening of Stanstead , a few weeks before , and I met a chap in there who worked in the airport and we were just in conversation and he said , asked him what he did , and he said , ‘ I 'm basically on temporary contract preparing for the Queen coming to open the airport . ’
4 But Proust also regards the world of people as being just as fluid and difficult to grasp , indeed more so , than the world of objects .
5 I happen to like Hamman … but I think this is just for publicity or severe delusions of grandeur .
6 It is just past midnight and many of the cadets from Old College are guarding well-concealed patrol bases in remote valleys and woods up in the Welsh hills near Sennybridge .
7 It is just after lunch when the phone rings in Captain Rob Tuck-Brown 's office .
8 Raise the camcorder and rest it against your face so that the viewfinder eyecup is just in contact and the finder picture can be clearly seen .
9 Do you find it 's just at night or is it in the day too ?
10 These questions are often opening gambits for a negotiation of some sort , even if it 's just for interest and approval from one another .
11 So I do n't think that we 're turning them away , I think it 's just in church that it 's probably not the most appropriate place to have lots of smoke .
12 Well , it was just into lunchtime and word came to stop — but almost immediately that was changed , and we were working through to get the ship finished .
13 By the time he climbed stiffly out of bed he knew it was just past noon and had the events of Rotherhithe roughed out in his mind like a draft report .
14 It was just past dawn and she believed she had n't slept : not that night , nor the previous night , nor the night before that .
15 It was just above knee-length and fitted her slender curves perfectly .
16 It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house .
17 Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said !
18 It was just by chance that I turned up at one of the early meetings of the first lesbian liberation groups in London and found myself involved in the early debates around socialist feminism , radical lesbianism , the Women 's Movement and the sixth demand which named women 's right to a self-defined sexuality .
19 It was just by coincidence that she did .
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