Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owner Stewart Tarratt said : ‘ There were several burglaries that night and I think the thief just stopped here for a meal break . ’ |
| 2 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 3 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 4 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Actually they 're meat and coconut , just mixed together with a touch of coriander . |
| 6 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 7 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 8 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 9 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 10 | Dates have just come in for a series of Ovation guitar clinics , with Ian Aitken : Wed Oct 14th , Picton Music , Swansea ; Thu 15th , Cranes Music , Cardiff ; Mon 26th , Oasis Music , Ringwood , Hants ; Tues 27th , Soundpad , Barnstaple ; Thu 29th , Avalon Music , Sevenoaks ; Wed 11th Nov , Music Inn , Nottingham ; Thu 12th , Musical Exchange , Birmingham ; Fri 13th , Foulds of Derby ; Wed 18th , Rose Morris Music Store , London . |
| 11 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 12 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 13 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 14 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 15 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 16 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 17 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They had not been there very long and had just come out of a restaurant , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 20 | I think she 's probably just come out for a quick stroll , we wo n't spend our time over that at the moment , hello |
| 21 | Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat . |
| 22 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 23 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 24 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 25 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 26 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 27 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 28 | I can wear it up or down , teased and back-combed out or just brushed back with a headband . |
| 29 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 30 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |