Example sentences of "[vb past] it just " in BNC.

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1 Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him .
2 A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window .
3 just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then
4 just say , you can take a poem home and learn it and then recite at the next lesson and then used it just
5 Well I used it just now that 's why I knew there was something in there .
6 Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles .
7 ‘ I found it just as nippy as my car , despite the smaller engine , ’ she told me .
8 I was a big Smiths fan at the time , but after a while I found it just was n't raw or hard enough for me .
9 But they went and found it just the same .
10 ‘ I found it just before Jack Bernstein rang .
11 Clara , like the others , found that the sausage inspired her with a sense of violent disgust , but she ate it just the same .
12 Those things get so twisted it just makes me look stupid . ’
13 Her flatmate Carolyn Bartholomew says : ‘ She played it just right .
14 And — despite the fact that their portraits were largely drawn by monks — they were men in a distinctively lay tradition : not for them Gerald of Aurillac 's yearning for the cloister ; though they might put their sword to the service of the church , they wielded it just as often for secular purposes and to gain renown .
15 That she achieved it just when the company was set for major expansion , was an accident of timing that Bernard was determined to exploit to the full .
16 There 's no record for Chris Griffiths — but he enjoyed it just the same .
17 We arranged it just today . ’
18 I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car .
19 oh ooh , ooh , ooh , ooh , and everybody in the whole pool heard it just go everybody was going ooh !
20 Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England .
21 Nevertheless she loved it just the same but had to sadly wave it goodbye , much to the relief of her cat who took a dim view of the competition !
22 But trading standards officers Peter Pawlowski , David Ravenscroft , Kevin Mitchell and Tony Quigley plus pal David Smith decided it just was not cricket .
23 And then decided it just was n't right .
24 Culley took a captain 's chair that was standing by a wall and placed it just back from centre in the room .
25 I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true .
26 So they pick up full speed and run for cover — and your net should be carefully positioned so they hit it just before reaching safety .
27 Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ .
28 Mick Fowler and Phil Thomas managed it just four days before Dave ‘ Cubby ’ Cuthbertson and Murray Hamilton .
29 Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph .
30 Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation .
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