Example sentences of "and [adv] i just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ? |
| 2 | They 're not on letter headings and so I just thought they might be |
| 3 | I had n't really sorted anything out socially or whatever and so I just got back into it . |
| 4 | It was totally outside my experience and so I just stood there and walked out . |
| 5 | And so I just started playing it and the other guys started improvising around me . |
| 6 | and so I just need my salad stuff till another time |
| 7 | sort it out and I walked off and like I just walked away and Achil and thingy were laughing at , you know , cos not at me at how crap |
| 8 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 9 | And now I just do n't care . |
| 10 | last week , week before , I was told a chest infection and throat infection and well I just do n't feel no better . |
| 11 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 12 | Well I , I thought it was the peanut butter you see , and then I just thought what you said last night . |
| 13 | I had about two mouthfuls and then I just thought , no , I 'm going home . |
| 14 | It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things . |
| 15 | I signed myself in and then I just went . |
| 16 | sorted out and then I just walk along and pick up Stephanie . |
| 17 | Well I could n't see anything , er because there was a lot of cloud , and then I just heard this sort of bang , and then it was just silent . |
| 18 | And then I just go about myself all day . |
| 19 | I was a chargehand and then I just drifted into being a Redcoat , and getting up and doing five minutes on stage and enjoying it . |
| 20 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 21 | I just , I just felt that it was the cream the other night , and then I just felt oh , you |
| 22 | I do n't I , I go sshh and I just shoot out and then I just swim to the edge , I do n't go under . |
| 23 | But I wait for him to start it — and then I just finish it off . ’ |
| 24 | And then I just stopped . |
| 25 | ( ‘ I could n't make up my mind whether I wanted it or not , and then I just panicked . ’ ) |
| 26 | I pretended something was wrong with the bed , and then I just turned and ran . |
| 27 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 28 | As one mother in Ritchie 's study of families on benefit noted : ‘ I buy half a pound of stewing meat or something and give that to Sid and the kiddies and then I just have the gravy — before I used to buy soya things and substitutes to meat but I ca n't afford that now ’ ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 35 ) . |
| 29 | We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best . |