Example sentences of "be just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 2 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 3 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 4 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 5 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 6 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 7 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 9 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 11 | It had been just after Christmas ; she had worn a new pair of fur mittens her sister had given her . |
| 12 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 13 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 14 | Well , and I went to Ipswich well it must have been just after the war then |
| 15 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 16 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 17 | She had been just in time . |
| 18 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 19 | I am a good citizen , a nice person ; I am just at the moment in the grip of a sexual passion , in the throes of love ; I am alive : I who have been so nearly dead for decades , which is why I am currently neglecting them , just a little . |
| 20 | I smoke my spliff and switch on the telly ; I am just in time for Neighbours . |
| 21 | Local buses stop right outside , and for keen walkers the magnificent ‘ Wild Emperor ’ mountains are just outside the back door . |
| 22 | It is an awkward object to observe , because the only useful comparison stars , the white Eta and the slightly orange Theta , are just outside its field with × 7 binoculars , and there is nothing else available . |
| 23 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 24 | I know that you people are just over a bank holiday weekend and so will be slower than usual voicing your comments to the net but WE WON after all . |
| 25 | Home attendances are just above 14,000 , which does n't make it a viable working venue for Stan Flashman 's considerable ticket broking expertise . |
| 26 | The cold weather payment scheme is still wholly inadequate , with thousands of pensioners whose incomes are just above the income support level receiving no extra help with their fuel charges . |
| 27 | They would have to win their remaining two games by big margins to have a chance of escaping , starting next week at Walsall , who are just above them . |
| 28 | Matt black with tiny fawn flecks , they are just under a centimetre long . |
| 29 | After about three hours , we got through and we asked her what had happened and she said ‘ everything is fine … the tanks are just across the road ’ , and my mum did n't know what to say because we were all so upset . |
| 30 | ‘ We are just at the beginning of the worldwide epidemic and the situation is still very unstable . |