Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it just [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I found it just as nippy as my car , despite the smaller engine , ’ she told me . |
2 | Well I used it just now that 's why I knew there was something in there . |
3 | I wore it just about half a dozen times , during which the button came off and the lining split . |
4 | We ran towards our target — King Kong 's massive back — without a hitch and I reached it just ahead of my friend . |
5 | I thought it just as well to let you find out for yourself . ’ |
6 | I did it just now . |
7 | We planned it just now . |
8 | We arranged it just today . ’ |
9 | If they timed it just right they could scavenge for a few hours before going to the Royalty in Ladbroke Grove for the Saturday morning minors . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ’ . |