Example sentences of "just [conj] i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
| 2 | Just that I caught it as I moved my finger . |
| 3 | ‘ London is just as I left it , ’ railed Audubon resentfully to his friend , the Reverend Bachman , ‘ a Vast Artificial area , as well covered with humbug , as are our Fine Lands and old fields with Broom grass . |
| 4 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 5 | Just as I imagined it . ’ |
| 6 | " Do you know , Dida — that ceiling is the first part of Portugal I 've seen that is just as I imagined it . " |
| 7 | I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals . |
| 8 | The sense of its otherness , he wrote , just as I wanted it , an alien object , one never before seen on our planet , not quite animal , not quite mineral , not quite vegetable , yet familiar , familiar . |
| 9 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 10 | Just as I predicted it would , it 's falling off . |
| 11 | All the horror of my childhood experience with the escaped convict had come back to me , just when I thought it was safe to forget it . |
| 12 | Just when I thought it could n't get any better the Turkish police steamed in a chinned Big Nose and Bryan ‘ As I say ’ Knobson . |
| 13 | This method is magic and it helped me out just when I needed it . |
| 14 | Just when I needed it most , too . ’ |
| 15 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |