Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In 1860 the present Thomas Street Church was completed just after the 1859 Revival .
3 She tasted blood and thought that it was Ryker 's , but then realized that her own face was gashed just below the left eye , she guessed by flying glass .
4 When a report was made just after the 1914–18 war , Nos. 1–8 , 11 , 12 , 15 , 23–26 and 35 were mounted on Peckham trucks , while 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 16–22 and 27–34 were on Brill trucks .
5 Their son Henry was born just before the General Election .
6 At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War .
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