Example sentences of "just [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 2 | ‘ With ‘ Spirit Of Eden ’ it was just that we had the freedom to move into this constructive freeform style of playing , which up till then we just could n't afford to do , ’ continues Mark . |
| 3 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 4 | just that I tried the phone room , I 'll take you down there and , I could see you from up here and I said he 's around . |
| 5 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 6 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |
| 7 | Fancy flogging you just because you sliced the legs off the general . |
| 8 | Just because you had the good fortune to pay nothing for your very expensive university education does little to justify a system of higher education which , at the same time , excluded 85 per cent of your age group from the privileged position you evidently enjoyed . |
| 9 | But , with the Cabinet decision and the Chancellor party to it , it was harder for them , and I think we had more success than most other governments in doing this just because I knew the background . |
| 10 | Well I sort of said to him as well about , I said and it 's ridiculous , just because I said the bedding had been lo in the loft |
| 11 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 12 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 13 | Unfortunately , just after we started the appeal , my wife died . |
| 14 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 15 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 16 | Just before they reached the track leading to Yatton Farm , however , they received a shock . |
| 17 | They drove back in silence for a while and then , just before they reached the house where William 's mother now lived , William said , ‘ It was the reason my mum went into business , you know . ’ |
| 18 | Just before they reached the station she said , ‘ Was it the birds ? ’ |
| 19 | For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered . |
| 20 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 21 | Hello ! has won a reputation as heralding disaster by featuring families apparently in bliss just before they hit the rocks . |
| 22 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 23 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 24 | Just before he reached the ramp , I could hear the engine hesitate ; he throttled down . |
| 25 | The news reached Napoleon III just before he left the Tuileries to distribute the prizes to the successful exhibitors , and observers noticed , without at that stage knowing the reason , that during the ceremony he seemed even more abstracted than usual . |
| 26 | Now , just before he left the country for what would be the last time . |
| 27 | Just before he entered the city , he was transferred to a ‘ miserable and worn out animal , covered with filth ’ . |
| 28 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ They 'd got a tail off a fox fur and pinned it on the back of Victor 's coat just before he started the dance . |
| 30 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |