Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] [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 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
22 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
27 | we , we 've only just got out the bath and then she says come on hurry up now |
28 | we thought oh they 've just got out the guarantee . |
29 | Well he 's just locked up the car ooh |
30 | Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf , would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company ? |