Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 2 | Moaning , the creature rose , saying impulsively , ‘ When I found you just now , I feared you were killed also , Master . ’ |
| 3 | In spite of her rage with him she admitted that she found him just about perfect to look at . |
| 4 | Well I used it just now that 's why I knew there was something in there . |
| 5 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 6 | ‘ I found it just as nippy as my car , despite the smaller engine , ’ she told me . |
| 7 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
| 8 | She slept with boys ( and men — some lecturers , too , fell by her wayside ) as if it were the most natural thing in the world ( ‘ indeed it is , it is ! ’ ) , then dropped them just as casually in the morning with a smile of disbelief that they should expect anything more of her , or any other woman . |
| 9 | She told us just now merely that he said he had a gun but you you remember that it is a hand gun . |
| 10 | The reason I asked you just now what you planned to do was that Laura , my sister — you remember her , do n't you ? |
| 11 | I never saw it before you showed me just now . |
| 12 | And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown . |
| 13 | ‘ When I thanked you just now , by the way , it was because you got me out of the boat before I hit the water this time . ’ |
| 14 | She rather patronized him , but he was impervious to that ; it amused him — he was not unsubtle , Mr James says , but did n't bother to show it — he was amused by her American independence which served him just as well as Italian docility . |
| 15 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 16 | We arranged it just today . ’ |
| 17 | I rang you just now and you did what you do , not speak . |
| 18 | ‘ Though I expect you frightened him just as much . |
| 19 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
| 20 | they met her just now . |
| 21 | Only I asked her just now |
| 22 | That made him just about my size . |
| 23 | The telephones kept me just about busy but the potential for job satisfaction in the tasks I was required to do was almost nil . |
| 24 | The conversion went well and took me just over a week to complete . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me just over an hour to drive here from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 26 | fraid so … only took them just over a minute as Paul Devlin poked the ball home from a corner |
| 27 | I saw you just now with Gary . |
| 28 | I saw you just now in your nightdress . |
| 29 | You saw her just now and you 've been engaged less than twenty-four hours ! |
| 30 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |