Example sentences of "and just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford 's Howe was an early probationer and just before Hackett was sent down , Beckett , his prop , was admonished for riotous behaviour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And just before it 's too dark and they have to be shut up . |
| 10 | And just before he went , he said : ‘ Funny , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 16 | And just that the proposals if you want to opt out of the homework timetable then they can but they 've got ta let |
| 17 | Done the Denman outing , and just that Vera wants to have a word at the meeting about next year 's holiday , which is , she 's thinking about Scarborough . |
| 18 | ‘ And just so you do n't forget … ’ |
| 19 | Qaddafi is convinced that nature is better than art ; that society based on natural givens is not only more comfortable and just than one based on acts of will and rational choice , but more likely to survive : ‘ A flourishing garden or field is one in which plants grow , flower , are pollinated and root themselves naturally . |
| 20 | For example , during pregnancy and just after you are queen for ten or eleven months . |
| 21 | And just after you 've arrived back . |
| 22 | First , after about twelve miles and just after you have driven through the limestone defile of Escot , there is Sarrance , a colourless , silent village these days but an old place of pilgrimage and of literary inspiration . |
| 23 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 24 | In the week before Christmas 1991 , and just after John Major 's ‘ three-nil ’ victory at Maastricht , the Government suddenly realised house repossessions had reached crisis point . |
| 25 | ‘ I went home and just after I got in my mother phoned ; she must have known from my voice that something was wrong . |
| 26 | Popping up to Christies and just after you go up the top . |
| 27 | I mean there 's times I could just take Billy and just but then you have to think , no . |
| 28 | And just cos we could n't do some questions on the paper she says , Oh you 're not good enough then you should 've learnt it better . |
| 29 | and you assume something 's gon na happen and just cos , I mean I was too embarrassed to speak to him on like Monday and Tuesday |
| 30 | And just because it looks like a wild boar with the striped marking or ‘ agouti ’ ( long snout , straight tail and small pointy ears ) , can it be accepted as such without a genetic test ? |