Example sentences of "just [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 you 're just re-distributing the rubbish . ’
2 A few days later , on May 14 , the Banco Central and the Hispano-Americano joined to form the country 's largest private bank with assets of $84,000 million ( just outstripping the Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya formed in October 1988 — ibid . ) .
3 Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading .
4 Probably the most useful indicator on a shoot is the one which shows whether or not you are actually recording pictures — it 's easy to forget whether you have just pressed the camera control on or off !
5 REBECCA Stephens may have just conquered the world 's tallest mountain — but she insisted last night she had no plans to end her climbing career on a high note .
6 And he was out there for about three years , he come back home and of cou just travelled the country , again working on the farms and that .
7 I goes ah just broken the indicator lens and a few other little bitties .
8 Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window .
9 I 've just broken the record for writing more books than any English author has ever done .
10 He had just broken the news to them about Philpott .
11 Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated .
12 He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family .
13 Can I just answer the phone ?
14 Can I just answer the question I , I dodged ?
15 So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on .
16 Just the bag , just bring the bag with er with all
17 It 's almost worth advertising alcohol just to preserve the lobbying the brewers indulge in to prove that it does n't encourage young people to drink , just for the sight of their endless statistics that prove that all this money they spend on advertising is n't making anybody buy their product : run this by me again , why are you doing it ?
18 I just like to start off by saying and just reminding the council well in particular Mr in light of what he said that he does n't understand what Mr is on about , well he 's never understood the issue of the merger in Highfields .
19 On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub .
20 Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance .
21 It had n't worked , of course , just made the others frightened .
22 You just made the corn .
23 He just made the mid-afternoon Saudia connector flight .
24 And that 's where the men worked and they just made the barrels in there .
25 I think my race across the car park and the force of gravity just made the baby slip out !
26 And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ?
27 This time Damien Cronin kept going a move that seemed about to die and Hastings just made the line near the corner .
28 I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian .
29 It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden .
30 ‘ I 've just given the barman his own show on the telly , ’ he explained , handing them around .
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