Example sentences of "just [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness . |
| 2 | So that , erm , the fact that you 're increasing erm , protection , protectionism against it , is n't it likely to upset the producers who are exporting it , and who say it 's no point exporting it there cos we 're going to get erm , huge thing put on our things and we 're not going to sell that much , it might be better just sell in our own country , is n't that reduce world tr |
| 3 | They moved little , just pressed against each other , felt the excitement of unknown flesh . |
| 4 | The pastry is neither crisp nor soggy , and just tinged with cherry juice . |
| 5 | And then you just photocopy from the card , and it 's a nice , and you keep the card , you do n't give that out . |
| 6 | Have you just travelled along the A10 ? |
| 7 | I 've just travelled on a train that has had its inside scraped and engraved with the upside-down , sideways , capitals language of fanatics of the football game . |
| 8 | ‘ But Nathan Bryce has just parted with twenty-five thousand pounds in order to have me with him . ’ |
| 9 | As she did , Claudia realised , pity mixing with sorrow as she remembered that Dana had just parted with the man she loved . |
| 10 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 11 | He 's just recovering of course . |
| 12 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 13 | Theresa had a transplant in 1989 and was just recovering from that ordeal when she had a brain haemorrhage and went into a coma for three months . |
| 14 | The city was just recovering from one of the usual bouts of plague which come in late winter ; its citizens , however , sensed the worst was over and the streets buzzed like an overturned hive . |
| 15 | ‘ Standing on chairs is n't to be recommended when you 're just recovering from a sprained ankle . |
| 16 | He says that they were only just recovering from making cuts last year , now they 're having to do the same again ; only this time there will be redundancies . |
| 17 | My husband , just recovering from hospital treatment himself , must now care for me , entailing 24-hour supervision . |
| 18 | So , in that spirit , you can put together a library from whatever source you choose — just trolling round the many Bulletin Board Systems using a fast modem can net you gigabytes of files , and some really good stuff too . |
| 19 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 20 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 21 | I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever . |
| 22 | Doughboy … a giant of man who did n't drink or smoke and just lived for his studies , and his rowing . |
| 23 | Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual . |
| 24 | The ones , most people ca n't do anything with those , they 're just paralysed by them in the States , and then we have project management forms . |
| 25 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 26 | That 's er , about one fifty for one as long you get the right size and then just , just tear to whatever thing . |
| 27 | I would rather see a few children unnecessarily separated from their parents than thousands of them just remain without any parents at all ! [ … ] . |
| 28 | Er , how do I get down at all , erm , of course that might not be a worry , you might and just remain in the realm for all eternity . |
| 29 | But , I felt , I know , at one point I really thought I was going to have to ring Iris to come and just sit with the kiddies , but I thought well if I drop down what the hell , devil this house gon na look like in , with three of them let loose in . |
| 30 | In the east , says Buckle , ‘ many bridges just sit on the columns like a stack of cards ’ . |