Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peers into it , but sees only herself , looking shell-shocked , and the room behind her , resembling a Wild West saloon just after Jack Palance has thrown Elisha Cook Jr through the plate-glass window . |
| 2 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 3 | Poor Elsie had died of the whooping cough just after Harry had gone to America , so now there was only Edna at home in the daytime to help her mother . |
| 4 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 5 | The conflict with the second director derived from his wanting Dustin to play the role of Valentine Brose just as David Warner had done in the London production . |
| 6 | One rather novel feature , fitted by David Fenton just after the aircraft came onto the UK register , is a Rockwell wing-leveller system which is linked to the turn & slip and the VOR . |
| 7 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 8 | Now a joint project involving the US and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) , has saved the LOFT reactor just as Washington was about to shut it down to save money . |
| 9 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 10 | I need not pursue these issues further here , however , as the results already cited are enough to establish that , given appropriate circumstances , verbal pre-training can influence performance on a recognition task just as it can on a motor task involving discrimination among the pre-trained stimuli . |
| 11 | I suppose I can not complain , the wine was scrounged from the Officers quarters at Brigade H.Q just before we left that area . |
| 12 | And to all Britain 's European allies there seemed to be something incongruous about her ending conscription just as they were trying to expand their conscript forces under American pressure , in order to make the forward defence of Western Europe , which they all desired , a practicable strategy . |
| 13 | One night I remember , she knocked on the door at Denmark Street just as we were packing up . |
| 14 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
| 15 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 16 | They either automatically assume we 're just backing singers or we 're a folk outfit just because we use harmonies and acoustic guitars . ’ |
| 17 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |
| 18 | Our competition could be the answer to your problems , as you can lay out the wardrobe interior just as you need it , after you 've put up the wardrobe with the help of the instructions provided . |
| 19 | ‘ You going up to town , Mum ? ’ he said , as I scribbled my shopping list just before I dashed out of the house to catch my train . |
| 20 | I must n't slump into scum lingua just cos I 'm excited , Biff told himself . |
| 21 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 22 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 23 | A lot of them , like the horned and armoured dinosaurs ( represented by ceratopsians and ankylosaurs ) appeared towards the end of the dinosaur era just when the stegosaurs were passing away . |
| 24 | Only her father had done that and he had obviously welcomed Alain Lemarchand just as he had rejected her . |
| 25 | It was lucky for us all , was n't it , boys , that fancy new Saks store opened up on Fifth Avenue just before we came away ? " |
| 26 | Besides Pamela Chrimes , Nadia Nerina had been one of the company 's early members ; John had known her briefly in Johannesburg when they were both schoolchildren , and they met again in Cape Town just before she left for Britain in October 1945 . |
| 27 | Heartened by this exchange , Joshua re-entered the conference hall just as Norman Tebbit was getting to his feet . |
| 28 | He was interested to see Ray 's collection , presented to Samuel Dale just before he died , who later passed them on to Chelsea . |
| 29 | He did in the end manage to reach Liverpool Street station just as the passengers were coming off the two-twenty from Ipswich . |
| 30 | And on these gravelly soils , the Semillon flourishes just as it does in Bordeaux . |