Example sentences of "just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 2 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 3 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 4 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 5 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 6 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 7 | I find I can easily put things into perspective , see both sides of an issue , if I just sit around for a while and I probably do that for half an hour a day . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 9 | They just sit up in their rooms and smoke hash and never speak to each other . |
| 10 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 11 | ‘ Just sit down over there . |
| 12 | Just sit down for few minutes , you are probably worth more than you think . |
| 13 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 14 | Just sit down for ten minutes . |
| 15 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 16 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 17 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , I 'm quite happy I 'm just building up with Rob with the I A P's |
| 19 | I was just building up to it cos it 's |
| 20 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 21 | And then , what a so , you get a huge star there you just zoom around about erm |
| 22 | I dug the idea of being free enough to just goof off from incessant maths homework . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The delivery came very quickly and so suddenly Mrs Busuttil 's recollection is the baby just fell out onto the table or whatever it was she was lying on . ’ |
| 24 | So on the days when I lead the Micks on Mounting Guards , I do n't get breakfast , I just make up for it at lunch . |
| 25 | Inside these glass globes — part of what Henry James called " the thick detail of London life " — you can see lettering put there by the shop owners , and just make out in one globe the word TEA . |
| 26 | ‘ Being 40 just crept up on me , ’ says Clarissa . |
| 27 | It just crept up on me . |
| 28 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 29 | But you did sleep with people just to report back on it . |
| 30 | It was very hard for the Brownies to stay still and quiet on the ground , just gazing up into space , especially when every now and again the circling plane came between them and the sun and cast a strange , dark shadow over them . |