Example sentences of "[noun sg] was just [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home Rule was just around the corner . |
| 2 | Daylight was just around the corner however , but by the time daylight did arrive , although she and her pride were very much certain that she 'd see Vendelin Gajdusek in hell before she ever spoke to him again , certain other practicalities had entered her head . |
| 3 | Wexford thought the place was just like the sitting room of a person of taste . |
| 4 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 5 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 6 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 7 | But most of the time I did n't write because one day was just like the day before , and sometimes I thought — what 's the use of writing anyway , when nobody is ever going to read it ? |
| 8 | And , the court was told , the caper was just like the film Best of Friends in which Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster play two old lags who decide to pull off a final robbery . |
| 9 | For years articles like this have been heralding the ‘ impending ’ arrival of a new British Standard for plain clay roofing tiles : good news was just around the corner . |
| 10 | Chapman was particularly struck by the fact that the ground was just across the road from Gillespie Road Underground station , and could thus be reached easily from most parts of London . |
| 11 | But a new row was just around the corner . |
| 12 | Caricature was just around the corner . |
| 13 | John Dunlop 's filly has yet to find the target this season but her four-and-three-quarter lengths fourth to Only Royale in the Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks last month suggested that her turn was just around the corner . |
| 14 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 15 | In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level . |
| 16 | As it turned out , rather too much excitement was just around the corner . |
| 17 | The hotel was just outside the town . |
| 18 | The tavern was just near the Custom House on the corner of Thames Street , a grand , spacious affair with a green-leaved ale-stake pushed under the eaves from which hung a huge , gaudily painted sign . |
| 19 | The malais began to think a triumph was just around the corner . |
| 20 | Valmontone was just within the diocese of Segni . |
| 21 | When Sir Eric was appointed Rector in 1985 everyone was congratulating themselves that the financial squeeze on the universities , which had lasted 15 years , was now at an end and that stable funding was just around the corner . |
| 22 | Dudley House was just outside the village of the same name and the easiest way to get there was to walk . |
| 23 | Brigade H.Q was just at the entrance to the village with everyone within walking distance of each other . |
| 24 | His office was just across the square and the sight of him took some of the fright away . |
| 25 | His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie . |
| 26 | Allison said : ‘ The atmosphere was just like the Manchester derbies when I was at Maine Road . |
| 27 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 28 | Thank God the Palladium was just round the corner . |