Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 2 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 3 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 4 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 5 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 6 | England had just lost to Spain . |
| 7 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 8 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 9 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 10 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 12 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 13 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 14 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 15 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 16 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 17 | Mr Abramson , of Shirley Road , Allerton , said last night : ‘ I had just gone to the off-licence to help my daughter Trudie while her husband went for his tea . |
| 18 | They had just risen to their feet when a strident voice exclaimed , ‘ Well , will you look who 's here … ? ’ |
| 19 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 20 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 21 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 22 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 23 | Yes , something certainly was over , but something else had just began to be thought about . |
| 24 | Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation . |
| 25 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 26 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 27 | The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself . |
| 28 | All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised . |
| 29 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 30 | Ursula returned to the hi-fi , removed the cassette they had just listened to and loaded another . |