Example sentences of "he just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’ |
| 2 | Ranulf the rat-catcher was waiting for him just outside the door , a sleek , well-fed Bonaventure in his hands . |
| 3 | Julie struck again , this time catching him just above the right eye , tearing the flesh . |
| 4 | The flying hairdryer hit him just above the eye , flex trailing like the tail of a kite , and as he swatted it away the plug whipped around and smacked into his teeth . |
| 5 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 6 | Carrefour faltered , doubling over as the bullet caught him just below the sternum . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I did n't mean arrest him just at this minute . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , I 've a horrible feeling I do n't want to talk to him just at the moment . |
| 9 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 10 | She now knew that he could never satisfy her , but was not prepared to dislike him just for that . |
| 11 | Maura loved him just for those words . |
| 12 | But I think that if we can grab him just for half and hour |
| 13 | Or you could go to bed with him just for fun and one day you 'd suddenly find you were in love with his body and you could n't live without it and you 'd be stuck with his rotten mind for ever and ever . |
| 14 | No silly plus-fours for him just for effect and image . |
| 15 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 16 | I hope he just needs a couple of goals to help his confidence — or maybe we should n't use him just as an ariel target man 'cos when he gets the ball on the deck he looks okay ( if a bit Chapmanesque ) . |
| 17 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 18 | Tuathal wakened him just after four . |
| 19 | Thanks very much indeed Pat , and erm that brings me to the end of the lunch time phone in , in fact , the end of my stint on the lunch time phone in , because on Monday Bill will be back ; Bill Heine , so you 'll be able to join him just after the twelve o'clock news . |
| 20 | They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’ |
| 21 | For example , the man may travel to work each day by car and so carry an extra £20 with him just in case his vehicle breaks down and needs to be repaired at once . |
| 22 | He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time . |
| 23 | I wo n't say anything to him just in case you wan na get your own at some time ! |
| 24 | Do n't you wish you could eat him just like you ate your eggs ? |
| 25 | There are philosophical problems about this kind of approach to paintings : if the artist paints so that what is on the canvas looks to him just like what is in front of him , then the astigmatism or other defects ought to cancel out and his picture look all right to us . |
| 26 | They hear about him , again and again , and still they , as the bible says , harden their heart and continue to reject him just like Pilate . |
| 27 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 28 | ‘ I can slip it to him just before ‘ Question Time ’ when I do my check up , ’ said Matron . |
| 29 | " I saw him just before nine and I thought then that he 'd been dead about twelve hours , perhaps a little longer . |
| 30 | Sally-Anne had a flash of memory of him just before their abortive lovemaking , remembered how dear she had felt him , so dear that she no longer saw his scarred face , but only Dr Neil , whom she loved . |