Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I knew just where you 'd be and how you 'd be lying . ’ |
| 2 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 3 | It began with a dream I had just before I got up . |
| 4 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 6 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 7 | During my first attack I experienced some very inaccurate return fire which ceased just before I broke away . |
| 8 | Well , 'e called , like 'e said 'e would , all wrapped up still , and I brought 'im in and 'e stood just where you 're standin' . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps she moved just before Melanie died , ’ Bridget suggested . |
| 10 | I have a grand-niece , my brother 's granddaughter , and two Saturdays ago I went to see her dance in Denver — and she danced just as I 've always wanted to dance . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Actually , you arrived just as I was about to invite Leith to Parkwood . |
| 12 | ‘ And do n't they have rooms enough to house an army ? ’ she demanded just as though he was about to deny it . |
| 13 | She knew just where she stood , as seen from the twisted , ancient oak on the skyline . |
| 14 | It was familiar to her now , and she knew just where his cheek curved , how his jawline made a firm outline for those tender lips , whose searching touch she knew , and had now rejected . |
| 15 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 16 | Frankie Howerd : April 19 , aged 71 : ‘ Titter Ye Not ’ master of sexual innuendo and star of Up Pompeii , who died just as he was enjoying a big comeback . |
| 17 | Once or twice she met Carrie 's eye and smiled as if to say she felt just as she did . |
| 18 | Such was Johnson 's dominance that Jack London wrote : ‘ Plucky , but absolutely helpless , the white man seemed to be a victim of a playful Ethiopian who did just as he would ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.29 ) . |
| 19 | That 's his mother 's plastic table she bought just before she died . |
| 20 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 21 | When she moved she waddled just as the captain had illustrated . |
| 22 | And I said oh when was that and she said just after you 'd gone to the bank and I said oh I 've just spoken to him . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't surprising in view of the unexpected visitor you had just before you left . ’ |
| 24 | Cos if you had just if you did n't have the thing erm over the wire it would just burn right through very quickly . |
| 25 | Really , we moved just before the recession took hold , otherwise we could n't have done it . |
| 26 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 27 | What would happen if we all parked where we pleased just because we were too lazy to park properly ? |
| 28 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 29 | We arrived just as the first eggs were hatching . |
| 30 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |