Example sentences of "just [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 2 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 3 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 4 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 5 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 6 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 7 | Director Tony Smith had just completed the prize-winning TV series Tutti Frutti , but these were to be some of his first commercials . |
| 8 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 9 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 10 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 11 | We have just heard the usual mixture of muddle , confusion and gloom to which we have become accustomed from the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) , who tries every year to prove that more equals less . |
| 12 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 13 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 14 | We have just heard the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) dismiss the argument that people pay more income tax and VAT if they are on high incomes . |
| 15 | The British visitor had just heard the exact same overview from the hospital 's top administrator . |
| 16 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 17 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 18 | Well she 's only just joined the human race when she 's had a fag and a cup of coffee . |
| 19 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France . |
| 21 | It was I just took the last one on Saturday , and I then threw the |
| 22 | Levi has just won the Canadian Open at the Glen Abbey Golf Club near Toronto last September , the final win of his magnificent season . |
| 23 | It has , from all accounts , been a successful marriage — as clearly shown , in part , by his recent recording of the American composer John Corigliano 's brilliant First Symphony ( which has just won the 1992 Grammy Award as Classical Record of the Year ) . |
| 24 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 25 | ‘ I think I 've enjoyed myself more after the housewife 's choice has just won the Grand National . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But I have just won the Young Eagle award and feel I am close to my best . ’ |
| 27 | They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time . |
| 28 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 29 | sunny California may sound good … but for swimmers like Jaime King it 's all hard work … this summer she 'll be swimming for Britain in the European championships … she 's just won the senior title … and on top of all the training has also been taking her GCSE 's at school … |
| 30 | pick the sod up , look I 've just picked the bloody hand up there , you poxy thing |