Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] just [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In that context , he said , the Budget should be ‘ considered alongside the Autumn Statement I delivered just four months ago ’ .
2 I could n't believe I 'd done it , and I felt just great .
3 ‘ With respect , sir , when I said a minute , I meant just that .
4 And I would n't like a child of mine and I managed just two I had to send to the workhouse and a mother and baby died there , it was a bad case you see .
5 I , I liked it at college but I 'm glad I went just one day a week because
6 I hesitated just that millisecond too long .
7 I bought just one pair and , sure enough , they gave me nothing but trouble .
8 I did just that .
9 I had just two questions : how did it feel to be made immortal ?
10 I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David .
11 I had just one weekend of the melting snow and slush on the fells — very wet indeed — during testing , with no possibility of drying the boots after the first day .
12 I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds .
13 Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong .
14 ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed .
15 I wish I had just half the strength of those
16 I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache .
17 And she smelled just terrible .
18 Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads .
19 She seemed just happy to see us . ’
20 She took just six months off with the birth of each of her sons , now 11 and 14 .
21 As a result , when Steven was born that same year , she took just two weeks off .
22 She looked just adorable … and Historically Accurate too I must say .
23 That puts even Lady Thatcher 's efforts in the shade — in her final 20 months she managed just 71 days .
24 So if you marked just one , food allergy or intolerance is a possibility but not certain .
25 Oh no I thought you bought just some plain green ones .
26 She was trembling , perhaps because she 'd suddenly remembered that the origin of the toast she had just drunk lay in the Viking custom of saluting each other by drinking from the skulls of their enemies .
27 She had just enough money .
28 She had just enough money left after selling up in Mexico to buy a small finca in Ibiza , where she settled in to survive on a war widow 's pension and the proceeds from her annual harvest of almonds .
29 At last she could postpone it no longer — she had just ten minutes to get to her bus !
30 She ate a biscuit and drank more cocoa , Mrs Blakey asked what kind of things , and she said just horrible things , things about people having secrets .
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