Example sentences of "[was/were] just [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses which a moment before were just off the pace crashed into the leaders , tipping off their riders and running up and down the fence , preventing any of the horses following from getting over it . |
| 2 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 3 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 4 | ‘ The groves were just above the sea , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She has smooth , soft skin which glows softly as though a candle were just below the surface . |
| 6 | The sounds were just below the limit of human hearing . |
| 7 | Often they were just on the edge of being happy . |
| 8 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 9 | I was only teasing you because I thought you were just like the rest of them . |
| 10 | They were humans but they were just like the monsters . |
| 11 | They were just like the creature outside , but only about twenty centimetres long . |
| 12 | ‘ When the lights went out , we were just behind the stage . |
| 13 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 14 | So I got the job , which had the great perk of corporate membership at the Riviera course , which was just down the road from the office . ’ |
| 15 | For sports the children would run around a local playing field , which was just down the road , they walked there under supervision of , or the children would do the long jump in the sand pit . |
| 16 | Her mother 's bedroom , once the living-room , was just off the hall , where the telephone was . |
| 17 | His office was just across the square and the sight of him took some of the fright away . |
| 18 | Chapman was particularly struck by the fact that the ground was just across the road from Gillespie Road Underground station , and could thus be reached easily from most parts of London . |
| 19 | His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie . |
| 20 | But this was just during the strike ? |
| 21 | In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level . |
| 22 | The last North Shields pit closed in 1929 , although Back worth colliery which was just over the boundary of Tynemouth CB survived until 1979 . |
| 23 | ‘ We have never really picked a figure , but if he wanted a certain player who was just over the amount we had in mind , we would let him have it . ’ |
| 24 | The station ( closed in 1954 ) was just beyond the crossing . |
| 25 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 26 | people latched onto it as something that was n't a political strike , was n't being led by militants , revolutionaries , what have you , and it was something , it was just for the freedom of the working man if you like , and his standard of living was not gon na suffer because of bosses intransig intransigence I 'll say it right in a while , and what have you . |
| 27 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |
| 28 | Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders . |
| 29 | Brigade H.Q was just at the entrance to the village with everyone within walking distance of each other . |
| 30 | I think I was just on the verge of making one . ’ |