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

No	Sentence
1	I think I found just the tiny
2	Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem .
3	The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment .
4	But next to the Dance Hall if we 'd given them the licence to ha turn the cinema into a Dance Hall , there was this little old boy who lived just the other side of the road , in an old cottage , and he was over eighty .
5	In contrast alto Ameral Gunson , replacing Carolyn Watkinson , grew with the performance and her recitative The Man That Was Lame conveyed just the right tone .
6	Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone .
7	Oh yeah , we raced just the same even though we had to do it early , so that some of them leave , and we started at sometimes half past eleven .
8	Stella did n't ; she nodded just the same .
9	Jon Tiplady and daughter Gale ( + 3 ) , from Four Marks , lost just the one game ( to the Tipladys ) to take runners-up spot .
10	So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well .
11	In it they brought just the right weight of balance to each part , to each phrase , to each note .
12	I felt just the same after my own mother 's death when my father mentioned her .
13	I 'm sure you and Father probably felt just the same , so you 'll understand , wo n't you ? ’ — blunt perhaps , but honest .
14	But Ken proceeded just the same .
15	Debbie disappeared just the same and then rang to ask for the money .
16	In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old .
17	After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older .
18	The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through .
19	It looked just the same .
20	Miss Havisham looked just the same as before .
21	I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past .
22	‘ Anyway , the hut looked just the same ; things wear better than people , do n't they ? ’
23	I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did .
24	The beautiful house looked just the same , white and gleaming in the sunlight , and Jenna looked away quickly , knowing that she wanted to stay here with Alain and not go back to her empty life , her sterile plans for the future .
25	The farm looked just the same .
26	If one took just the last three years , the annual average migration figure would be a little under three thousand three hundred .
27	To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable .
28	That was what it was , but it hurt just the same , his open contempt of her .
29	Knighton juggled a football in front of the Stretford End to advertise his designs on Manchester United ; last season Smart merely wandered out to draw the raffle before Hartlepool 's FA Cup tie with Bournemouth , but the adrenalin surged just the same .
30	I keep my mouth shut just the same .