Example sentences of "she [verb] just [vb pp] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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1 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
2 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
5 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
6 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
7 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
8 | She 's just come out of hospital . ’ |
9 | And if Jane could babysit because her mum ca n't because she 's just come out of hospital . |
10 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |