Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | He looked at Ronni as though she were a particularly disappointing novelty that had just fallen out of his Christmas cracker . |
| 9 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 10 | So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each . |
| 11 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 12 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
| 15 | I have only just flown in from Paris and I am very tired . ’ |
| 16 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And his friend Rachel ( ‘ She 's a singer ’ ) has just dropped in with some presents from her mom , and the bluesman tells us his old voice is starting to go , and our audience is finished . |
| 21 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 22 | They were just dropped out of a union , it just happens the one we 're quite friendly with at the moment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 25 | Just picked up from teletext … |
| 26 | I pondered on the Italian touch Id experienced early that Sunday afternoon , and reflected on why the rest of the weekend had just fizzled out into one empty blank . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |