Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 2 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 3 | This certainly stuck a chord with the pilot whom I had just photographed as he flew his newly-restored P-40 for the first time . |
| 4 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 5 | Because er my mother was fair and she must have carried it or something and then I I 'd just started I think a week of two or three weeks and my sister got it and the boys never got it . |
| 6 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 7 | To be near someone who had just killed was painful , agonising if the killer had enjoyed the killing . |
| 8 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 9 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 10 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 11 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 12 | Fifty-six per cent of these men lost their virginity to somebody they knew well ; for 14% , the partner was someone they had just met . |
| 13 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 14 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 15 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 16 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 17 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |
| 18 | As she faced out to sea then turned back to face the land through which she had just passed , her eyes were unseeing ; only the past was visible . |
| 19 | Gravel spurted from the heels of her boots as she crawled furiously up the cliff down which she had just slid . |
| 20 | She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come . |
| 21 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 22 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 23 | Laura had agreed while casting a wry glance up at the roof , on which she had just spent many thousands of pounds . |
| 24 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 25 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 26 | This episode put me off water for years , the platform had seemed almost as high as the Blackpool Tower which we had just visited . |
| 27 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 28 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 29 | ‘ When she started to cry they offered to help wipe her eyes and used a piece of soiled paper which they had just picked up . |
| 30 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |