Example sentences of "she [vb past] just [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 2 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 3 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 4 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 5 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 7 | But it was the unexpected shots that would provide the spice to the story — like the ones she had just made of the little midinette enthusing as she saw the dress she 'd sweated blood for , if not created , come down the catwalk to the roar of applause . |
| 8 | A young woman , who was a final-year student at teacher 's training college , said she had just moved into the area , and knew very few people . |
| 9 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 10 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 11 | She simply looks satisfied , as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted . |
| 12 | She had just slipped into a black taffeta skirt and was buttoning the front of her blouse when there was a knock on the door . |
| 13 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 14 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 15 | Gwendolen was dad in dark grey and was wearing the hat she had just purchased from the Iduns Brothers Bazaar . |