Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 2 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 4 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 5 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 6 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 7 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 8 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 9 | Just picked up the kids . |
| 10 | ‘ Just picked up an odd-looking customer . |
| 11 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
| 12 | So if we 'd have just carried on the way that was going , I mean , that got it from ninety thousand in just over a year to , to seventy nine thousand in five months . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just come off the Isle of Man boat . ’ |
| 15 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 16 | The tot , Britain 's most premature surviving child , had just come off the danger list after a three-month fight for life . |
| 17 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 18 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 19 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 20 | Hagglers need nerve , particularly the ability to keep calm when they have just turned down an offer but can not yet be sure that another is forthcoming , says the book . |
| 21 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 24 | So that just made quite a big hole in our money . |
| 25 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 26 | In the few cases just seen where the to infinitive denotes an action , it also brings in the nuance of subsequence , of sudden movement from one instant to the next . |
| 27 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 28 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 29 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 30 | I have just wiped out a whole line by carelessly resting my finger on a key , and earlier it kept telling me ‘ mistake ’ — not , of course , helpfully saying what the mistake was . |