Example sentences of "the [noun] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have lately become very aware of the spiritual side of life , ’ Brian tells the NME just before his head explodes trying to make a follow-up . |
| 2 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 3 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 4 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 5 | I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession , somewhere in the trees a short distance away . |
| 6 | Of the two , Last of the Summer Wine ( E1 5b ) is the finer and better protected ; continually interesting with the crux just where it should be — at the top . |
| 7 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 8 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 9 | There had been a tense week , in which Alexandra came to hear that Dora had wanted the position of head cook at Langley Dene , but she said nothing to Dora , and continued to interest herself in the kitchen just as before , and the matter went away quietly of its own accord . |
| 10 | A cold gazpacho soup accompanied by hot , crusty garlic bread and followed by several special salads was on the menu for tonight , and Belinda arrived in the kitchen just as Mrs Porter was garnishing with parsley a deliciously chunky bowl of boneless chicken , artichokes , avocados , celery and cashew nuts coated in a tangy dressing and resting on a bed of purplish mignonette lettuce . |
| 11 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
| 12 | She came in by the side-door just as the clients arrived , and , taking Joanna 's overall from the peg , she followed Sophie into the waiting-room . |
| 13 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 14 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 15 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 16 | The truck had toppled off the roof just when he was walking underneath it . |
| 17 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 18 | If one of the dietary amino acids is made radioactive ( as in the experiment I described in Chapter 2 ) and fed to or injected into an animal , it is incorporated into the proteins just as its fellow , non-radioactive amino acids are , and the proteins become slightly radioactive in their turn by virtue of containing the radioactive amino acid . |
| 19 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 20 | In insisting on the fact that science starts with problems , then , is it not the case that , for the falsificationist just as for the naive inductivist , science starts from observation ? |
| 21 | We can be locked into the ritual just as we become locked into a dance sequence once we have entered upon it . |
| 22 | Dot 's eyes were growing used to the dark just like they had to in the shelter when the warden 's lamp went out . |
| 23 | Uncle Jack called to complain of being kept in the dark just when his expertise in such matters — of which Charlotte was unaware — might be most valuable . |
| 24 | Unless you 've done something awful , the courts wo n't deny you contact with the kids just because your wife does n't like it . |
| 25 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
| 26 | Killion opened fire at a hundred yards and emptied his drum in a series of probing bursts that brought a bloom of flames to the aircraft just as he skimmed over it . |
| 27 | It is just because the whole of this institution of married women 's property existed in Equity only that Equity could mould the institution just as it pleased . |
| 28 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 29 | In the centuries just before and just after the Conquest , handwriting comprised a mixture of styles and letter shapes , depending on the language used ( Latin , Anglo-Saxon , Norman French ) and the importance of the book or document being written . |
| 30 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |