Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.

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1 In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes .
2 THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests .
3 Our guide could point out one ship just completed however in Yarrow 's yard .
4 He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started .
5 Well you know , she was just sat there in the chair and they said that they
6 He said he just carried on in the same direction .
7 Aha , when the pantomime started up that was just carried on in there .
8 Local governments are thus not just caught up in recent political conflicts as some innocent or neutral part of the political machine , but are themselves crucial in interpreting and promoting social change .
9 I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’
10 Paul Langford 's ‘ A Polite and Commercial People , England 1727–83 ’ has just come out in paperback ( Oxford , £10.95 ) .
11 The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres .
12 I have n't had time to think yet , I 've only just got back in on the phone and sorting out the printer .
13 Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation .
14 Four British Muslims freed by Saddam Hussein from captivity in Iraq , have just arrived back in England , the wife of one of them says she 's overjoyed at the news .
15 I mean that guy just pulled out in front of me .
16 Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people .
17 I HAVE just set up in business as a limited company .
18 He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper .
19 ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle .
20 New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams .
21 Sometimes it is better to let the children have free time when they just run around in the garden or hall .
22 Oh , crumbs , she thought , any faint hope she might have nursed of still being able to make it to Prague and Karlovy Vary just gone up in smoke .
23 Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead .
24 It 's not gone through the post and arrived battered , torn or creased ; and it 's not going to be just plumped down in piles on the floor .
25 It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it .
26 You end up having inappropriate sculptures just put somewhere in front of the building , bearing no relation to it or its function .
27 How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley .
28 Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face .
29 In a nail-biting last game , Lau just edged home in deuce 22–20 to put Pinewood into their first cup final .
30 And Anna Freud said , okay that 's what you called it , but supposing we had to look what you 've just described up in a dictionary , what word would be found ?
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