Example sentences of "[noun] just [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 2 | Ellen just went to sleep . |
| 3 | You see sometimes Boy , like all of us , sometimes Boy just wanted to be taken care of without having done anything to deserve it . |
| 4 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 5 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 6 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 7 | And so Pam just said to her yeah she said he is married to my ex she is married to my ex husband but she said she 's bloody welcome to him . |
| 8 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 9 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 10 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 11 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 12 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 13 | Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it . |
| 14 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 15 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid Moira just went to pieces . |
| 17 | At first the leaders just listened to what Karen and the others said about the factory . |
| 18 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 19 | Though we shall have much more to say on the issues that allegedly divide quantitative and qualitative methods in later chapters , the kind of choice just alluded to is neither urgent nor necessary . |
| 20 | The police just happened to be checking cars today . |
| 21 | The show just came to a standstill , and the audience did n't know what was happening . |
| 22 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Angela just said to just alter it on the P forty five , but |
| 25 | Zoe Cockburn , 17 , of Lyonette Road , who witnessed the incident , said : ‘ Pauline just got to the bottom of the drive and he shot out of the window . |
| 26 | Zoe Cockburn , 17 , of Lyonette Road , who witnessed the incident , said : ‘ Pauline just got to the bottom of the drive and he shot out of the window . |
| 27 | Emma just tried to Emma nearly got run over ! |
| 28 | Ana just drifted to a halt , turning without demur as Maggie moved her to face the house . |
| 29 | Her brother just came to Handley Farm to say she has n't gone back . ’ |