Example sentences of "[v-ing] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discomfort would go , and it did , and he slid down , his head resting just above the thick lace of foam . |
| 2 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 3 | Between 1919 and 1923 about 700,000 Germans living just inside the Polish border , in Poznania and the Corridor were forced to abandon their homes and trek west into the Reich . |
| 4 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 5 | In the temperate zones , lying just outside the ice-bound regions , when the minerals drain into the sea , the soil is depleted and less vegetation is supported . |
| 6 | Deceased 's father , with Thomas Hawkswell [ sic ] set out as a search party , and eventually traced the ‘ footings ’ of the missing man … to the old Groove house , and found the lifeless body of young Brown lying just outside the dilapidated building , with his faithful dog watching over the remains of its departed master … the deceased had been married about nine months but he , however , resided with his father at Blackton , while his wife lived with her mother at Bowes , pending their securing a farm and home to themselves , a consummation well within sight at the time of this untoward happening — this mysterious interposition , which surely intimates eternity to man … ‘ |
| 7 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 8 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 9 | Harper , tactfully waiting just inside the stable door , appeared with his weapons and pack . |
| 10 | As with cuttings in a garden , they are capable of growing just like the original plant . |
| 11 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 12 | The star , whose latest single Will You Marry Me ? is about her wedding to Estevez and bubbling just outside the Top 40 , spent years fighting a weight problem . |
| 13 | ‘ Before the fireman could fasten his belt ’ read the Wolverton Express report , ‘ there was a buzzing sound in the stables , the doors of which flew wide open and Bessie and Harry , with heads erect and eyes flashing , galloped to the shafts , stopping just under the suspended harness which dropped and was automatically locked on their backs ’ . |
| 14 | Tsu Ma had pushed for forward through the water until he was standing just below the deep lip of the bank . |
| 15 | A large group of people was standing just beyond the wrought-iron gate . |
| 16 | He was standing just inside the front door and was thus hidden from me . |
| 17 | SPRING 1957 , THE ASHLEY FAMILY SITTING JUST OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR AT EAST COTTAGE . |
| 18 | So you were in in mourning just like the whole time . |
| 19 | Do n't make the mistake of concentrating just on the immediate problem . |