Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd just seen you talking to Phena , who told you I was n't in the study , ’ he said softly . |
| 3 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 4 | He 'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket . |
| 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 | I 'd just forced myself to drive , for the first time in my life , in a country where they have n't the sense to drive on the proper side of the road . |
| 7 | Jezrael-Ayesha flinched just like she knew the captain had expected . |
| 8 | While he ate and listened , the telephone rang three times on minor parish business and Flora badgered him to read a pious poem she had just written which began : |
| 9 | Before the trial , the Sunday Times had just asked him to pose for the fashion pages of their magazine , wearing tough-guy togs . |
| 10 | And here they were , nearly twenty-odd children , gaping back at him as if he had just asked them to run through the periodic table . |
| 11 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 12 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 13 | Tommaso said , quickly , that he could not stay , that he had just had something to drink , anyway , in town . |
| 14 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 15 | Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’ |
| 16 | What Guido had just told her coincided with Jeff 's story . |
| 17 | A tutor and a year 's hard studying had just helped him catch up . |
| 18 | After a large lunch in the women 's majlis , I had just settled myself to do a little reading when there was a knock at my door . |