Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 2 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 3 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 4 | After the brief words I have just exchanged with Stephanie , I promise she will trouble us no longer , cara . ’ |
| 5 | They 're on board an air ambulance which has just landed in Ancona , where they 'll meet the evacuees and prepare them for the journey to Britain . |
| 6 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 7 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 8 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 9 | ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully . |
| 10 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 11 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 12 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 13 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 14 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 15 | I hope it 's light when I do my test I 've just got ta do a back got black sort of snow white and I 'm gon na do . |
| 16 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 17 | He turned to look at Denholm who had just arrived on the bridge . |
| 18 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 19 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 20 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 21 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 22 | Mesmerised by the scene he had witnessed , and agonised by the scene he had just had with Mrs Figgis-Hewett , when he saw her costume and vainly attempted to dissuade her , Auguste recalled his prime duty and reluctantly despatched Alfred to the dining room to prepare for the serving of wines at the Prince 's table . |
| 23 | It was , of course , poor thing , out of practice at making decisions of the kind she had just put to it ; it had , Anna considered , been given an easy ride for twenty years . |
| 24 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 25 | Over lunch I overheard Bernadette say to Sarah who 'd just started with us then , Ricky 's a bit strange at the moment because he 's just been on a course , but he 'll be better next week . |
| 26 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 27 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
| 28 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 29 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 30 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |