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 ’ .
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