Example sentences of "the [noun sg] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 5 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The politics of local government have come to the fore just as the powers of local government have declined . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No one person can be blamed for the tragedy just as Lear can not be all the victim nor all the instigator . |
| 13 | The truck had toppled off the roof just when he was walking underneath it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | We can be locked into the ritual just as we become locked into a dance sequence once we have entered upon it . |
| 18 | Dot 's eyes were growing used to the dark just like they had to in the shelter when the warden 's lamp went out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D . |
| 24 | The intelligence officers , having failed to allow for Double Summertime , which had been introduced the night after the first ‘ Hess ’ flight , were on the point of standing down the op just as the bombers droned into hearing . |
| 25 | True , it is a risk — many a spring in Britain has thrown a frost at us in April , even May is not unknown — but you are not going to be so daft as to muffle up and go out to do the pruning just because the date or some idiot article says the time is right . |
| 26 | Yet it would be odd logic not to repair the machine just because the current might one day be cut off again . |
| 27 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking of your machine 's case as the most important part of the machine just because it is the bit that you see most of ! |
| 28 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 29 | ‘ You get people in tears coming into the pub just because they have got here at last . |
| 30 | Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint . |