Example sentences of "he just " in BNC.

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31 When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke .
32 He 's nice like that , is Peter — you know , he do n't wait for me to ask — he just says ‘ Make yourself at home , Billy ’ or ‘ Have a look at this , ’ or ‘ Guess where I got this ? ’
33 I ask him if he 'll tell me the story again , but he just looks over at me and shakes his head .
34 He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking .
35 I think he 's trying to look all grown up and that , but he do n't really — he just looks like a young kid trying to be grown up .
36 I listen real close to him , but he do n't really play the tune — he just sort of goes blah-blah-blah every now and then .
37 He do n't say nothing to me — he just carries on sweeping like I ai n't there .
38 He just goes on past me , puffing away and shoving this trolley thing in front of him .
39 The bus turns the corner and it gets stuck in some traffic for a bit and he just carries on shouting again and again .
40 He just sat there , scratching his head with those black fingernails and telling my mother there was never anything like that on his side of the family .
41 But he did n't want to nationalise them , he just wanted them — for himself .
42 But Aoun seems sure that , if he just hangs on regardless , some other miracle will in due course come to the rescue .
43 Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph .
44 Among those at the party was Muhammad Ali , who unlike Louis has , so far , not sunk to being doorman at Caesars Palace ; he just stands in the Mirage Hotel at the head of a never diminishing human snake , signing his autograph .
45 I could have won a couple of the frames but he just played too well for me .
46 He just looked through me .
47 I think he just slid off .
48 And then Dylan came along , and he did n't have to do anything , he just was .
49 He just chatted me up .
50 He just said , ‘ It 's up to you ’ .
51 At the Marquee , Phil 's father said that Ralph was using us — he just wanted us to play tonight and then it was all over , we 're finished , so why did n't we finish now ?
52 He just continued writing more of the same stuff that was going on his album .
53 He thought it was fabulous because I guess he just was n't used to living in all that space and the idea of living in this enormous rambling series of rooms appealed to him very much .
54 He just sat on the chaise-longue .
55 He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK .
56 He just decided it was time before the country had decided it was time .
57 He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would .
58 I think Japan was taken by surprise — they did n't expect a tour at the time — but he just decided to do it .
59 He stood aside for McLeish , then took himself off , observing unnecessarily that he just had a wee bit paperwork to finish up .
60 Here was his dog about to kill a lamb and he just stood there doing nothing .
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