Example sentences of "[vb past] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear something special would be required to break the deadlock , and Mendonca provided just that when he unleashed his tremendous 25-yard drive past the helpless Miklosko . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she moved just before Melanie died , ’ Bridget suggested . |
| 3 | Really , we moved just before the recession took hold , otherwise we could n't have done it . |
| 4 | One quality which that work has in abundance is the Beowulfian ‘ impression of depth ’ , created just as in the old epic by songs and digressions like Aragorn 's lay of Tinúviel , Sam Gamgee 's allusions to the Silmaril and the Iron Crown , Elrond 's account of Celebrimbor , and dozens more . |
| 5 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 6 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 7 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 8 | The miracle occurred just as predicted . |
| 9 | This turn of the economic cycle occurred just as banking was substantially deregulated in most big countries . |
| 10 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 11 | A village has paid tribute to two American airmen who died when their jet crashed just after take off . |
| 12 | ‘ I would , but he quit just after I got here . ’ |
| 13 | Pontypridd35 Cardiff HSOB15 CARDIFF HSOB 's aim to become the first Welsh junior club to reach the semi-final stage of the Schweppes Cup failed just as all previous attempts by minnows had done . |
| 14 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 15 | There was one small question nagging him which he asked just as Samantha Lightbody was ringing off . |
| 16 | The timing seemed fortuitous , for they expanded just as demand was booming in the Middle East . |
| 17 | He limped just as Adam remembered . |
| 18 | We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside . |
| 19 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 20 | What would happen if we all parked where we pleased just because we were too lazy to park properly ? |
| 21 | But in the short run , as John Donne observed , men lived and believed just as they had before . |
| 22 | I will give you a quick tour from the air , ’ he added just as she opened her mouth to give him a caustic reply . |
| 23 | News of the windfall came just after the couple chalked up 40 years of marriage . |
| 24 | The knock on the door came just after he had put out the light . |
| 25 | This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill . |
| 26 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 27 | The row came just as talks were starting on the environmental and labour safeguards that the Clinton administration wants before asking Congress to ratify the North American Free-Trade Agreement involving the United States , Mexico and Canada . |
| 28 | The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate . |
| 29 | The postman came just as the grownups were moving into the parlour . |
| 30 | The doctor came just as she was settling in . |