Example sentences of "just [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Emma just tried to Emma nearly got run over ! |
| 32 | Pickering said : ‘ I just appealed to the linesman . |
| 33 | Donna said nothing ; she just dropped to her knees , the .38 still gripped in her fist , face bruised , her lip bleeding . |
| 34 | Though we shall have much more to say on the issues that allegedly divide quantitative and qualitative methods in later chapters , the kind of choice just alluded to is neither urgent nor necessary . |
| 35 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 36 | I was profoundly relieved when the law was relaxed in 1967 , but I think it just added to Hugh 's problems . |
| 37 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 38 | Hayling , who was much smoother in his appearance and approach , just seemed to Thomas to be very ignorant of business and how it worked . |
| 39 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 40 | Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress . |
| 41 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 42 | Well certainly I mean this this whole initiative is something that I s just seemed to me when Philip got in touch in the first place , that that something that we ought to er be involved with . |
| 43 | Will Carling said : ‘ There just seemed to be no way through . |
| 44 | Oh no , no , no , not at all af after the war work it , it just seemed to er no one ever seemed to get any be interested in flying as they were pre-war then , or they probably that they had cars and they could get about more you know to other outlying places like Pentiford in Wolverhampton |
| 45 | Women , erm from men 's departments , cos they just , like she said they , I do n't know why , but they just seemed to sort of |
| 46 | He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK . |
| 47 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 48 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
| 49 | I sat there in ITF 's London offices , listening to the problem and it just came to me . ’ |
| 50 | Just came to me when you were tekkin' away that cleansin' and I thowt I was ower late . " |
| 51 | Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’ |
| 52 | The show just came to a standstill , and the audience did n't know what was happening . |
| 53 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 54 | ‘ Manchester 's best kept secret ’ is one current fave , though The Word 's Terry Christian , fatuous even by his own lofty standards , referred to them as ‘ Manchester 's best psychedelic band ’ ; the memory of which grieves Martin still ( ‘ I just turned to our guitarist and said ‘ What the f— is he talking about ? ’ ’ |
| 55 | He said ‘ I just turned to him and what I said . |
| 56 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 57 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 58 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 59 | Maybe it was n't even him that took my bag — maybe it was one of those American tourists or someone I did n't even see , and Dayglo here — Vern — just happened to be running along the wharf . |
| 60 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |