Example sentences of "just [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just for a couple of nights in Dieppe : though I sometimes take the car and get down to Rouen . |
| 2 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | Just just for a couple of weekends to see how many actual calls we do get . |
| 4 | What I 'd like you to do now is er , just for a couple of minutes , informally with the people sitting next to you , see if you can list as many channels as you can under those second two headings , okay ? |
| 5 | It would do her psyche good to get away from here , even just for a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days |
| 7 | Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills . |
| 8 | And if you 're building a long flight , it can always be broken up with separate landings , either where the flight changes direction , or just for a change of pace . |
| 9 | Just for a fraction of a second Merrill felt that his surprise was genuine . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not just for a blow to be struck against Iraq when Saddam 's main victim has been innocent Iraqi people , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Just for a bit of fun . |
| 12 | just for a bit of revision . |
| 13 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 14 | And er , I know they want over a hundred pound just for a caravan for a week do n't they ? |
| 15 | I think we can go back just for a final to White Hart Lane , and join up with Nick Harris — got his breath back now Nick , I think a tremendous afternoon though for you . |
| 16 | ‘ The hospital is for patients , not just for a load of hangers-on . ’ |
| 17 | She returned her attention to the track , just as a couple of low branches took a swipe at the cab roof . |
| 18 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 19 | Just as a heap of sand is composed of individual grains , so electromagnetic radiation has a bitty structure ; one never finds fractions of fry but only one , or a thousand , or a million , of these granules of energy . |
| 20 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 21 | ‘ And there 's the pearl diadem we made , just as a bit of a gift — ’ |
| 22 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 23 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 24 | Benstede and Corbett then sat at the edge of a table directly beneath the great dais just as a chorus of trumpets brayed . |
| 25 | Emily might be able to persuade the supplier to call the debt in , just as a favour of course , then Hari would need money at once , she would have no choice but to throw in her lot with Emily . |
| 26 | It is also important that we should all realise that surveys show that a quarter of all stolen cars are used for death riding , just as a quarter of all car thefts happen to unlocked vehicles — which is our fault . |
| 27 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 28 | And I think it , it 's a mistake to see it just as a kind of erm as a little frill . |
| 29 | And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter . |
| 30 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |