Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 2 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 3 | It is therefore , Sartre argues , our historical task to make it known , promoting not just the historical process as such , but also the general recognition whereby the plurality of the meanings of individual histories can be seen to combine to make one history , with one meaning — the ‘ Truth of humanity ’ ( I , 822 ) . |
| 4 | It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before . |
| 5 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 6 | Collecting together just the right information from scattered origins is obviously an important step in making a sensitive visual analysis of rotation relative to the environment . |
| 7 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 8 | Bringing people together , tirelessly fixing up dates and appointments , putting in just the right word at the crucial moment , helping to forge new partnerships , Milton conducted both his life and his business with an extraordinary degree of caring . |
| 9 | Any pain you can conceive of as hurting in just the same way as yours hurt must be conceived of as hurting you . |
| 10 | Koresh was confronting not just the local sheriff but the government of the United States . |