Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience . |
| 2 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 3 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 4 | She 'd just slipped into it over the years . |
| 5 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 6 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 7 | Over lunch I overheard Bernadette say to Sarah who 'd just started with us then , Ricky 's a bit strange at the moment because he 's just been on a course , but he 'll be better next week . |
| 8 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 9 | ‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it . |
| 10 | I did n't think that was bad , considering I 'd just thought of it . |
| 11 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 12 | He 'd as good as admitted he 'd gone off her sexually by saying he preferred just resting in her , motionless . |
| 13 | Billy and Paul had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 17-hour journey from the previous night 's gig supporting Rush in Fort Worth , Texas , and were on their way to play in St Louis the next evening . |
| 14 | Lawton had just appeared in what looked like an operating theatre , standing motionless in the corner as though an actual operation was in progress and he was an unwelcome intruder . |
| 15 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 16 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 17 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 18 | They had just risen to their feet when a strident voice exclaimed , ‘ Well , will you look who 's here … ? ’ |
| 19 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 20 | But he had n't , of course ; he had just pleaded with her to stay with him , which was a world away from a total commitment . |
| 21 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 22 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 23 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 24 | Another flare had just burst above him . |
| 25 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 28 | Miranda looked with dismay at the document that Adam had just placed on her white horseshoe-shaped desk . |
| 29 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 30 | I thought when I saw the pair of you coming that you had just raced through everything , ’ Moran laughed . |