Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] just [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I said I 'd bottle of wine off my dad just for us three , that 's just for us three .
2 ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm !
3 I went to Westminster one night in mid-March , and was waiting for my bus just outside the Abbey .
4 He managed to head this sentence off its track just in time .
5 The dagger moved closer , nicking part of my neck just under my left ear .
6 ‘ And remember , ’ she quipped , ‘ Dames Martha and Elizabeth recalled seeing Lady Eleanor walking in the grounds below their window just before Compline . ’
7 Listeners were finally put out of their misery just before midday when broadcasters finally admitted to the April Fool .
8 Our model does predict that long-period comets with kinetic energies in the tens of kiloton range should catastrophically disrupt and deposit the bulk of their energy just above 60km altitude , so the fates of these objects are consistent with cometary airbursts .
9 ‘ Our muscles and tendons lose some of their elasticity just like our skin .
10 The contrast well with slower moving goldfish and koi , and spend most of their time just under the water surface searching for any dried food or insects which may fall onto the water .
11 On the other hand we got into a discussion yesterday as to whether the medical profession is n't devoting too much of its energy just to keeping people alive who really ought to be dead .
12 Mrs Zamzam agreed to let me photograph her and she sat a little unsteadily beside the wall of her home just in front of the cherry tree .
13 Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock .
14 Before she could do more than smile up at him , he had kissed her eyes , her lips , the soft skin of her neck just below her ear , and then he began to unbutton her clothes .
15 He was rubbing the top of his skull just at the hairline , but seemed otherwise unaffected .
16 We locked the front door of our home just before lunchtime .
17 ‘ Our muscles and tendons lose some of our elasticity just like our skin .
18 Very gently he caught the long glittering strands and brushed them behind her ear , his fingers lingering coolly against her flesh just for a moment before he let them drop to his side .
19 They had proceeded through childhood and into their adolescence just like a thousand and one other families in the community .
20 Across the square from the Colégio Church is the Museum of Sacred Art ( Museu de Arte Sacra ) , with its entrance just round the corner in Rua do Bispo .
21 We 've come to do Merry Monk , an HVS at its left-hand end which requires us to traverse carefully along its base just above the slow-moving water , grasping strange iron spikes driven into the rock .
22 He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master .
23 Athelstan turned to go back into his church just as a young pursuivant turned the corner of the alley , slipping and sliding on the ice as he bellowed the friar 's name .
24 Manville hardly felt the entry of the .38 slug as it chewed into his body just below the bottom rib , burning upwards at an angle through his lung .
25 You do it with your body just like it has been successfully done millions of times before throughout history .
26 She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you .
27 The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term .
28 The vertebrae in its backbone just behind its head have spikes on their lower surface which project downwards into its throat to form a small saw .
29 It holds up to three horses and will be driven to and from London by Mrs Charley from their home just outside Coventry .
30 He had two spare hats in his room just in case he ever lost his usual one , or somebody stole it .
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