Example sentences of "just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had just broken the news to them about Philpott . |
| 32 | ‘ Call the newspapers , ’ she croaked , ‘ I 've just broken every bloody speed record in swimming . |
| 33 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 34 | As he had just broken it . |
| 35 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 36 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 37 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 38 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 39 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 40 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 41 | Dawn had just broken and Sir John , unable to sleep , had risen early to confer with Alderman Venables about the continued disappearance of Roger Droxford , still wanted for the murder of his master whose decapitated corpse Cranston had found . |
| 42 | Just broken away from his girlfriend . |
| 43 | Oh my tie 's just broken . |
| 44 | I goes ah just broken the indicator lens and a few other little bitties . |
| 45 | Oh Mi well you 've just broken it ! |
| 46 | ‘ But Nathan Bryce has just parted with twenty-five thousand pounds in order to have me with him . ’ |
| 47 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 48 | As she did , Claudia realised , pity mixing with sorrow as she remembered that Dana had just parted with the man she loved . |
| 49 | In none of them , even in the young woman who was almost her age and who had a baby Peter had just christened , could she confide . |
| 50 | The ones , most people ca n't do anything with those , they 're just paralysed by them in the States , and then we have project management forms . |
| 51 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 52 | After two years of going to Kenya I 've only just realised what it is you 're supposed to do — walk ! |
| 53 | I 'm in love with Gillie , I 've only just realised it . |
| 54 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 55 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |
| 56 | Again I was astonished , for Syl was hard and red and , as I had just realised , old . |
| 57 | Lydia had just realised why Elizabeth was childless . |
| 58 | I always read those pining paragraphs in the back of magazines , though I never feel like replying ; and I 've just realised why . |
| 59 | She appeared taken aback , as if she had only just realised that the pair of them were not alone . |
| 60 | It was as if she had needed to do this for such a long , long time , but had only just realised it . |