Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't even in a fridge or nothing — it was just pressed up against the window to keep it cold . |
| 2 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 3 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 4 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The delivery came very quickly and so suddenly Mrs Busuttil 's recollection is the baby just fell out onto the table or whatever it was she was lying on . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 7 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 8 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 9 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 10 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 11 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 12 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 13 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 14 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 15 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 16 | ‘ He must have powerful friends , ’ said Georgiades , who had just limped in off the streets ; not injured but footsore . |
| 17 | Work is always just carried on with the dust samples fiddled . |
| 18 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 19 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 20 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 21 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |
| 22 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 23 | Let's say you receive a call in your boss ' office , on your boss ' phone , it 's just come through to the wrong one . |
| 24 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 25 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 26 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 27 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He 's just come in on the come back trail and he seems to me to be getting better and better . |
| 30 | 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 . |