Example sentences of "[vb past] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved just inside the close , but he remained outside . |
| 2 | Wycliffe 's head and neck came just above the plaited cane at the back of the chair . |
| 3 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 4 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 5 | The trouble flared just before the final whistle when Maradona tried to stop a Cadiz defender intervening in a dispute over a foul . |
| 6 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 7 | A thick tapestry hung just above the small canopied fireplace , the floor had been polished smooth , and the great bed was covered by a gold-tasselled counterpane . |
| 8 | Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 . |
| 9 | He had changed his parson 's clothes and now looked just like the young gentleman she had first met at Trantridge . |
| 10 | The air was all fresh on my face , I could be a loon myself , fling my arms about , shout across the mud-flats ( they looked just like the muddy backside of yesterday 's elephants ) and listen to my shout dissolving in the air before it reached the other side . |
| 11 | ‘ We all knew it was n't going anywhere ( it peaked just outside the Top 40 ) but that was n't an excuse to release any old rubbish . |
| 12 | This declaration was preceded by a series of analogous Royal Decrees issued just after the German invasion by the exiled Queen of the Netherlands and her government in May and June of 1940 ( see The Art Newspaper No. 13 , December 1991 , p.1 ) . |
| 13 | And afterwards Nicholas said : ‘ He sounded just like the real Michael Jackson . ’ |
| 14 | ’ I pointed to the high sill which ran just beneath the horn-glazed covering . |
| 15 | The music , so akin to the lighting , was familiar to me , yet only just above audibility , as the lighting hovered just above the visible end of the spectrum . |
| 16 | Having asked Jane Pargeter to come and give a formal statement at Chester Row , Blanche halted just outside the open door to the flat . |
| 17 | Although he wrote just after the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties , he rejected the idea that capitalism would break down because of a lack of investment opportunities and a reduction in the real rate of profit . |
| 18 | A uniformed man on either side of him , Joe walked past the vehicle to a steel-shuttered garage door which stood just beyond the public entrance . |
| 19 | A stocky man , dressed in rough denim with a whistle round his neck to warn off the unthinking , stood just beyond the ruined walls of the Temple of the Sun ; on the periphery of everyone 's intense looking . |
| 20 | They stood just outside the front door . |
| 21 | The cell block stood just off the L-shaped charge room , a corridor almost completely without daylight . |