Example sentences of "but just [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just past the hour Taewa , after good centre play from Watson and Sherlock , reasserted their authority . |
| 2 | Sometimes the fungi is n't growing in the soil proper but just under the ground on the decaying foot or stump of a tree , so a little investigation is necessary in these cases . |
| 3 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to . |
| 5 | But just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow … so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . |
| 6 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 7 | Say I 'm sure it wo n't be necessary , but just as a precaution . |
| 8 | I 'm going to be deleting an application called Legato ; not because I hate it , but just as a demonstration . |
| 9 | But just below the layer of gently folded limestones that contains the earliest of the invertebrate fossils , the strata change radically . |
| 10 | The Bishop 's Castle Railway was not in Wales , but just over the border , not so far from it , was another fascinating rural railway . |
| 11 | In front of them was the black mass of the mountain , but just above the ground level was a slightly brighter irregular ovoid , whose barely perceptible light seemed to drift slightly upwards . |
| 12 | We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target . |
| 13 | In Surrey and Sussex , for example , customary tenures were still common in the seventeenth century , but just across the border in Kent they were rare ; Kentish families were either freeholders or else they held their land on a yearly basis or by a lease for a term of years . |
| 14 | I do n't know if you noticed , but just outside the door , where the ground 's trodden , the grass thins , and there 's a slight hollow that obviously holds water every time it rains , and only dries out gradually in between — nice smooth black mud like double-cream . |
| 15 | Almost at once it was opened , not wide , as he obviously expected , but just to a slit — enough to pass out a note . |
| 16 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 17 | The eighteenth century may dominate this grassy rise , but just to the east , under the trees , there is the simple thirteenth-century village church where Came 's famous son , the Reverend William Barnes , was rector . |
| 18 | His lengthened features were expressionless , but just for a moment Rostov imagined that the bow was intended for him , and not for the Altun . |
| 19 | But just for a moment she had felt the weight of emptiness , she had felt how it must be to be shut away down here , bereft of even human companionship , away from the light , losing count of the days . |
| 20 | Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat . |
| 21 | He had insisted on accompanying Sharpe to Quatre Bras , not to fight , he said , but just for the chance of glimpsing the Emperor . |
| 22 | But just for the moment we wo n't worry about the grouping aspect . |
| 23 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 24 | But just at the moment , it 's the Military Show that counts . ’ |
| 25 | He supposed you got bored with too much of it , but just at the moment it seemed very desirable . |
| 26 | but just at the moment in P Way we feel that it is n't possibly going that way |
| 27 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 28 | He 's written you a poem in which you might well think he was describing a fox outside his window but just at the point when the fox seems most real , it might be coming through the window or it might be going into its hole , he says that the hole that this fox lives in is his head . |
| 29 | Matilda followed her , but just inside the doorway of the so-called sitting-room she stopped and stared around her in absolute amazement . |
| 30 | But just after the interval Davie Preece put the visitors ahead with a well-taken try with Alderdice converted to make the score 20-13 in Lisburn 's favour . |