Example sentences of "was just [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sure enough , it was just as the second , regurgitated blade appeared , dangling on a length of thread from Jim Rose 's mouth , that Richard had collided suddenly and rather violently with the floor of Strathclyde University Union 's level eight hall .
2 So I got the job , which had the great perk of corporate membership at the Riviera course , which was just down the road from the office . ’
3 For sports the children would run around a local playing field , which was just down the road , they walked there under supervision of , or the children would do the long jump in the sand pit .
4 Her mother 's bedroom , once the living-room , was just off the hall , where the telephone was .
5 Officially the Red Lion , it was just off the High Street and scene of a regular Sunday evening congregation .
6 Chapman was particularly struck by the fact that the ground was just across the road from Gillespie Road Underground station , and could thus be reached easily from most parts of London .
7 His office was just across the square and the sight of him took some of the fright away .
8 His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie .
9 But this was just during the strike ?
10 In 1977 , an improved version of the same program won the 84th Minnesota Open against a field whose strength was just under the Master level .
11 ‘ We have never really picked a figure , but if he wanted a certain player who was just over the amount we had in mind , we would let him have it . ’
12 The last North Shields pit closed in 1929 , although Back worth colliery which was just over the boundary of Tynemouth CB survived until 1979 .
13 The station ( closed in 1954 ) was just beyond the crossing .
14 Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us .
15 people latched onto it as something that was n't a political strike , was n't being led by militants , revolutionaries , what have you , and it was something , it was just for the freedom of the working man if you like , and his standard of living was not gon na suffer because of bosses intransig intransigence I 'll say it right in a while , and what have you .
16 Brigade H.Q was just at the entrance to the village with everyone within walking distance of each other .
17 Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders .
18 ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary .
19 I think I was just on the verge of making one . ’
20 But it was just on the , on the margin er er o o of something that was already a large factor below the international limit , so it was er there were very large safety factors involved in that in fact .
21 He began to juggle , making it look as if he was just on the verge of dropping the balls each time he caught them .
22 She was just on the point of leaving for London when her brother phoned to say that their mother was dying .
23 I did n't know he was home and I was just on the point of going into her room when I heard him . ’
24 In the basement , it was just on the
25 Dudley House was just outside the village of the same name and the easiest way to get there was to walk .
26 The hotel was just outside the town .
27 Their farmhouse , Green Gables , was just outside the little village of Avonlea .
28 Valmontone was just within the diocese of Segni .
29 It was just before the Battle of Alamein — Bletchley was providing Montgomery with vital intelligence — and , had I but known it , Leslie was , almost at that same moment , listening on the wireless to ‘ One Fine Day ’ , and suffering because he thought he would never see me again .
30 In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act .
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