Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preliminary analyses of the survey were completed just after the discovery of the error and before corrections could be made . |
| 2 | The greens , jealously guarded by Braid 's bunkering , were placed just so — elevated a touch and tucked around a corner , perhaps , or even half-ridden behind a clump of trees or a sand hill . |
| 3 | ‘ When his sheep ate some clover the other day , and were swollen just like these , he sent for Gabriel at once , and Gabriel saved their lives . ’ |
| 4 | Enterprises were given just three hours from the start of business on Jan. 23 to hand over such notes from their cash floats to banks . |
| 5 | And as if that was n't difficult enough , they were given just six hours to put together the entire production . |
| 6 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 7 | They were struggling just afterwards , as fly-half Paul Roblin put Park into the lead with a drop goal . |
| 8 | The quarries were situated just below Upper Halling and were linked to the factory by a tramway which crossed the A 228 by level crossing just south of the Church and then passed across the S.E. Railway line by means of a bridge . |
| 9 | No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples . |
| 10 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 11 | Some tearful householders whose homes were wrecked just had to cope as best they could . |
| 12 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 13 | ‘ The outer ring — where the beams were landing just now ? |
| 14 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 15 | Similarly , although trusts were reminded just one year ago of their obligation to abide by the manpower approvals procedures relating to non-consultant career grades , some have established posts clearly intending them to be outside the controls incorporated in Achieving a Balance . |
| 16 | They were rescued just in time , after one of them , an elderly woman , managed to raise the alarm . |
| 17 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 18 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 19 | In Ancient Egypt , pig footprints were considered just the right depth for sowing corn , and at planting time , the farmer would walk behind a pig , dropping seeds in the impressions . |
| 20 | This was where things were happening just now . |
| 21 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 22 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 23 | Of those who were visited , 44 per cent had only relatives to see them , 11 per cent were visited just by friends or neighbours and 45 per cent by both relatives and friends ; the most frequent visitor was a relative for 78 per cent and a friend or neighbour for 22 per cent . |
| 24 | That is , you write as if you were positioned just behind and above your detective . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 26 | There was no step up to higher things , but a system complete in itself under which poor children were to receive just that modicum of education which would enable them to become useful and content in their inevitable station as hewers of wood and drawers of water . |
| 27 | I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard . |
| 28 | Perhaps , unfortunately , a fairly high proportion of the counts were made just after the 1962/63 winter when populations of many species were very low . |
| 29 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 30 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |