Example sentences of "[vb past] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government contributed just eighteen point two percent so the bulk of our expenditure was born by local people directly . |
| 2 | Trevor Francis was as guilty as anyone , but after 26 minutes the Rangers player-manager provided a beautifully weighted cross which Simon Barker headed just wide . |
| 3 | A pass of hit and hope bounced just right for Nicholson . |
| 4 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 5 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 6 | Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died . |
| 7 | The 22-year-old , who was five feet two inches tall and weighed just six stone , disappeared on January 8 after leaving the mobile home she shared with her boyfriend near the Hythe in Colchester . |
| 8 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 9 | After the illness , Ian weighed just three stone . |
| 10 | The Department of the Environment provided just such a draft when they invited the Prince , as the United Kingdom 's patron of the European Year of the Environment , to open the Second International Conference on the protection of the North Sea in November 1987 . |
| 11 | On yet another level , however , de Gaulle provided just enough mystery about his own preferences to allow those who wanted to believe in " francisation " to go on believing that he shared their views . |
| 12 | The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto 's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies . |
| 13 | Richard Jones 's comparison experiment , briefly reported above , showed that users felt lost if they moved just one step from their original searches by choosing to " look at books classified near this one " , although the dialogue would appear to be a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity ( Figures 5.6 and 5.7 ) . |
| 14 | Neal Blewett found just forty-eight " predominantly middle-class " constituencies in 1910 , while Michael Kinnear found seventy-five in 1921 ( and Kinnear 's figure is certainly an understatement , for he could not get figures for divided boroughs outside London , many of which certainly would come into his category , so the real figure may be more like ninety ) . |
| 15 | Boats heading out past the Needles found just odd cod along with a few whiting , rays , pout and dogfish . |
| 16 | Fifteen miles away in Witney Henry Box School reported just three per cent truancy . |
| 17 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |
| 18 | Lydia was clad in an outfit which like many very beautiful things stopped just short of being ridiculous , hovering on the brink of parody . |
| 19 | They stopped just short of where the path ended in the yard . |
| 20 | Conversation between brother and sister was conducted at a level of mutual aggression which stopped just short of exploding into a row . |
| 21 | He stopped just short of the swell of her breast . |
| 22 | The harassment occurred just four months after the sixteen-year-old , from Lurgantarry , started her first job as a YTP trainee at workshop in Co Armagh , the hearing heard . |
| 23 | By 1958 Unwins listed just five single colours and three mixtures and before long only mixtures were available which included fewer and fewer shades . |
| 24 | Three deliberately late and confusing warnings mentioned just one bomb . |
| 25 | The agitation mentioned just two months earlier now seemed to be consuming the whole Moslem world . |
| 26 | Sales almost doubled from £61.9m to £120m for the year to 30 June , but operating margins fell sharply and pre-tax profits rose just five per cent to £7.29m . |
| 27 | Pre-tax profits in the three months to end-December rose just 4.4 per cent to £236 million from £226 million in the same period last year . |
| 28 | Share issues and a rising tax charges meant earnings rose just 25 per cent to 22.5p and a final dividend of 3p makes a total of 5.6p ( 4.5p ) . |
| 29 | The American fighter crashed just short of the runway at Upper Heyford , killing both men on board . |
| 30 | The aircraft crashed just 30 yards from buildings where 40 people were working at an agricultural firm in Buckinghamshire . |