Example sentences of "[vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | In John 's case , Bill charged just £120 . |
| 2 | The government contributed just eighteen point two percent so the bulk of our expenditure was born by local people directly . |
| 3 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 4 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 5 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And did you hear the bad language he used just now ? |
| 7 | If you do not have the luxury of a dining room used just for dining — and most of us do not , the trick is to make your dining table look as if it is not a dining table most of the time . |
| 8 | There was just enough speed for the aircraft to take off but unfortunately sustained flight was impossible and G-FLIX sank just enough for the main wheels to catch the edge of the dyke . |
| 9 | Britain and Europe rated just 25pc and defence was rated as a serious issue by only 23pc . |
| 10 | Our third meal we ate while on duty — sometimes at 2 a.m. — in the huge cafeteria erected just outside the gates of the Park . |
| 11 | Trevor Francis was as guilty as anyone , but after 26 minutes the Rangers player-manager provided a beautifully weighted cross which Simon Barker headed just wide . |
| 12 | Haslemere were playing some good football and almost went further ahead when Whiston headed just over . |
| 13 | Mooney headed just over under pressure from Bracey while Jules had a goal-bound shot cleared off the line by Billy Barr . |
| 14 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |
| 15 | A pass of hit and hope bounced just right for Nicholson . |
| 16 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 17 | Or maybe her shoulders trembled just a little also . |
| 18 | The glasses were generous , so full that the surface of the wine trembled just above the rim . |
| 19 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 20 | AND Traidcraft have a slim catalogue devoted just to handmade and recycled papers . |
| 21 | When she looked over the side in surprise , to her horror a huge orca surfaced just a metre away . |
| 22 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 23 | The 22-year-old , who was five feet two inches tall and weighed just six stone , disappeared on January 8 after leaving the mobile home she shared with her boyfriend near the Hythe in Colchester . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 'S smallest baby Kelsey Oakes — who weighed just 1lb 3ozs when she was born nearly four months early — is finally home from hospital . |
| 25 | SO TINY : Kelsey weighed just 1lb 3ozs at birth |
| 26 | Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died . |
| 27 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 28 | Doctors believe life-saving oxygen administered at birth when she weighed just over 1lb 8oz led to abnormal development of the retina . |
| 29 | After the illness , Ian weighed just three stone . |
| 30 | The Department of the Environment provided just such a draft when they invited the Prince , as the United Kingdom 's patron of the European Year of the Environment , to open the Second International Conference on the protection of the North Sea in November 1987 . |