Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 2 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 3 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 4 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 5 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 6 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 7 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 9 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 10 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 11 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 12 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 13 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 16 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 17 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 18 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 19 | Then Angel vaulted back on to his pony , which had just tottered groggily to its feet , and galloped back to the stables . |
| 20 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 21 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 22 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 23 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 24 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 25 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 26 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 27 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 28 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 29 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 30 | A high powered Sierra was careering down a steep hill in Wotton under Edge.When the driver reached the bottom he lost control and ploughed into the women who 'd just got out of their parked cars . |