Example sentences of "[coord] just [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Or just that you 're frightened to move ?
2 Now can you write out either now or just before I or when I 've gone what you 're going to do
3 I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes .
4 Was that just after the second war or just afore it ?
5 No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her
6 Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ?
7 DEATH AS LIFE 'S END ( the Doctor ) , as a crime ( the Detective ) , or just as butchery .
8 But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day .
9 Or just when there reviews ?
10 Still others questioned whether any war could ever be worthwhile or just when fought between Christian and Christian ; the doctrine of Christian love , such as Langland voiced in Piers Plowman , seemed incompatible with war .
11 So they would immediately have turned to the second , legislative stage : they would have tried to discover which decision was more sensible or just or democratic or would otherwise better serve the community .
12 Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ?
13 Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business .
14 ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’
15 If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence .
16 I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window .
17 Bedford 's Howe was an early probationer and just before Hackett was sent down , Beckett , his prop , was admonished for riotous behaviour .
18 Mrs Thatcher has the great virtue of candour , and just before she became Prime Minister she announced in a newspaper interview how she was going to run her Cabinet and she said it must be a ‘ conviction–government .
19 All the guests have to be wired up with a radio mike , and just before she went on , she said : ‘ I 've got this thing strapped between my legs — I hope it does n't give way … . ’
20 Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’
21 With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave .
22 They put pressure on their own elected councillors all over Glasgow to support our housing project and just before our deadline was reached , GDC coughed up all the remaining monies .
23 I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late .
24 I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab .
25 And just before it 's too dark and they have to be shut up .
26 And just before he went , he said : ‘ Funny , ’ he said .
27 Later , both sloppy drunk , he climbed on and gave it to her and just before he came she put a finger up his asshole and it was the strangest sensation he 's ever had .
28 Anyway , let us arrange it like this : we 'll keep it quiet until the beginning of the year , and then , if you have n't changed your mind ’ — he leant his head towards her , a soft smile on his face — ‘ I will ask your mother if we can become engaged , and just before you 're seventeen or just after , we 'll be married . ’
29 Now on the angle that you did there the degrees can you add those up and just before you start drawing it you should always add them up and make sure they all come to three sixty cos if it comes to four hundred it 's going to go right round and a bit further than once round .
30 Edward 's treatment of his youngest sons was markedly lacking in generosity , and noted by contemporaries : in a political sermon delivered during the crisis of 1376 Thomas Brinton Bishop of Rochester argued that the king should place his sons above the servants , for it was not right and just that servants should become lords and lords beggars .
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