Example sentences of "[vb pp] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 2 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 3 | Pamela Wray was found hanged just before she was due to start a new term . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm naming the squad for the game against Norway on Thursday and , as I 've already indicated , he will be included just as he was in Spain early this month . |
| 5 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 6 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 7 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 8 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 9 | It was the same roaring she 'd heard just before she and the cottage were swept away . |
| 10 | The delegates called for an end to workers being sacked just because they were sick or injured . |
| 11 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 12 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said the matter should not be dismissed just because Mr Brown had won his appeal . |
| 13 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 14 | Above : The elegant dining room was completed just before the quads were born . |
| 15 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 16 | This call is most often given just after the female has laid an egg and may be used to attract males for further mating . |
| 17 | Like natural somatostatin , octreotide inhibits postprandial gall bladder contraction , release of cholecystokinin ( CCK ) , and pancreatic polypeptide ( PP ) when given just before a meal Impaired postprandial gall bladder contraction is a risk factor for gall stone formation . |
| 18 | Sister Dannii would often join in and little could parents Carol and Ron have realised just where this extrovert show of singing and dancing would lead to . |
| 19 | George frowned sharply , irritated at being stopped just as he was getting well into his stride . |
| 20 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 21 | Should not be treated just because it 's there |
| 22 | Mrs Stobbs , who lives in Killerby , near Darlington , said : ‘ It would be terrible if a wedding is ruined just because the chauffeur does n't turn up . |
| 23 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 24 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 25 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 26 | What had Celia said just before Juliet had left her house ? |
| 27 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 28 | She had said just that to Miss Fairgrieves on her first day as governess . |
| 29 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 30 | ‘ 7×7 ’ , which reassuringly is already getting some airplay , was also written just after they signed . |