Example sentences of "just [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 2 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 3 | I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever . |
| 4 | Doughboy … a giant of man who did n't drink or smoke and just lived for his studies , and his rowing . |
| 5 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 6 | They call it now they just er they just made into er erm another pub , a posh pub . |
| 7 | Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas . ’ |
| 8 | Yanto just gazed into the fire . |
| 9 | He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes . |
| 10 | When she just gazed at him , he said patiently , ‘ I 've paid the agreed price , so tell me why , when you ought to be jubilant , you 're so obviously sad . ’ |
| 11 | After a delightful supper we just tottered across the forecourt of the Savoy Grill into the Savoy Theatre — very intimate — and we saw a nice show . |
| 12 | Beasant said : ‘ I thought I had it covered but it just crept through my finger-tips . ’ |
| 13 | Wolsey just quivered in terror , shaking like one of the jellies his chefs had so recently served us . |
| 14 | Well , she just asked about a bed , so I told her that we were |
| 15 | Well she just asked about a bed so I told her that |
| 16 | Questions should be formulated with a definite purpose and not just asked as a matter of course . |
| 17 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 18 | He just asked for more erm , one thing that is disturbing , what he does very causally mention is what is going on all the time |
| 19 | I just passed on what I knew . ’ |
| 20 | He only just qualified by winning 15-12 in the final game against a West German , Hansi Wiens , and will need to produce something extra today against the most improved Pakistani of the lot , Mir Zaman Gul . |
| 21 | So if you just sold to that at a small surgery that 's what your earnings would be . |
| 22 | Somehow the words just tumbled from her lips . |
| 23 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 24 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 25 | Yeah , well we 'll take erm Michael gave us say erm a , an assembly sheet did n't he and we just read from that , and that got a lot of interest from that . |
| 26 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 27 | He just rode beside her , saying nothing else , and Maggie had to speak or burst into stormy tears . |
| 28 | I remember the days of the old motorbike test , when you just rode around the block a few times while the examiner walked to various points and watched you . |
| 29 | I just 'appened on 'is bag , it was near to fallin' off the table . |
| 30 | Liz just winked at the girl . |