Example sentences of "then [pers pn] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 2 | And then I just stopped . |
| 3 | ‘ If that was a poor performance , then I just have to hope that they do n't play well against us at Highbury . |
| 4 | Then I just got involved and you realise the guys are working so hard , getting up so early . |
| 5 | But then I just told you that . |
| 6 | ‘ The board turns well to start with but then I just head downwind . ’ |
| 7 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 8 | Then I just snap at them and say , ‘ Enough of that . ’ |
| 9 | If it 's off then I just walk off stage and go ‘ Eeyaahh ! ’ and that 's it . |
| 10 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I just do n't understand . ’ |
| 12 | Then I just sat on the floor and wept for Granny , and for myself . |
| 13 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 14 | Well , now I 'd know what to do but then I just looked at him for help , and said , ‘ I do n't know any . |
| 15 | Then I just rushed out of the pub and started runnin' , then you got in me way and knocked me over and sprained me ankle . ’ |
| 16 | It certainly shook me when you came downstairs , but then I just thought my people might be away , and have let the cottage . |
| 17 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 18 | If they , if they seemed to be alright then I just sign a copy and that goes into our records . |
| 19 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 20 | ( ‘ I could n't make up my mind whether I wanted it or not , and then I just panicked . ’ ) |
| 21 | It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things . |
| 22 | I signed myself in and then I just went . |
| 23 | As one mother in Ritchie 's study of families on benefit noted : ‘ I buy half a pound of stewing meat or something and give that to Sid and the kiddies and then I just have the gravy — before I used to buy soya things and substitutes to meat but I ca n't afford that now ’ ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 35 ) . |
| 24 | I pretended something was wrong with the bed , and then I just turned and ran . |
| 25 | Then I just felt so tired I thought I 'd have an early night . |
| 26 | I just , I just felt that it was the cream the other night , and then I just felt oh , you |
| 27 | All Eva remembers is lying on the sofa wondering if she was going to die , and saying , " Well , Lord , if this is the end of my life I 'll just have to say how thankful I am , and what a wonderful privilege its been , but if it 's your will for me to live then I just give myself to you all the more . |
| 28 | And then I just go about myself all day . |
| 29 | Brenda 's turn is structured as a telling of a series of events which followed the initial exchange between her and the boy : " then I just laughed , and then " e pulled me for a dance … and then we started to talk … |
| 30 | Right , right then I just agree with that 's all . |