Example sentences of "just [vb past] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just upped and went off with that posh woman . |
| 2 | I just slumped and sat down in the mud and dirt . |
| 3 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 4 | Yes , in the sense that she was not a person who just reacted and went along with the system , but was prepared to be independent and assess situations for herself . |
| 5 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |