Example sentences of "just found " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just found myself usually more affected by the clichés in pop , in art , in life , than I have by the … ‘ |
| 3 | So the rabbi ran after the man and said : ‘ I have just found out that the jewel I gave you is more precious than I thought — do n't sell it for too little . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've only just found it myself . ’ |
| 5 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 6 | At the same time , Coleridge 's mother in-law , Mrs Fricker , also seemed on the point of death at the house in Oxford Street , Kingsdown , that he had just found for Sara and himself on the north side of the city . |
| 7 | ‘ I never used to read poetry at all but I 've just found out that it says all the things I 've often felt but never been able to express . |
| 8 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've just found one behind the wardrobe . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just found these under a board in your room , Spencer , I think they will prove that I am not the one who 's been defrauding the company . ’ |
| 12 | The film as a whole was quite remarkable with Jean Harlow giving another of her stunning braless roles and with Mae Clark taking a grapefruit in the face in a scene which film historians have interpreted either as an act of sexual debasement or of sexual equality but which contemporary audiences just found thrilling . |
| 13 | Until the 1380s , however , the belief that the war was just found almost universal support . |
| 14 | I think we 've just found the soft underbelly of the Spinward Corporation . ’ |
| 15 | She had just found Lizzy 's birth control pills when Dan came back in . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've just found this letter . |
| 17 | In fact I 'm playing Xerium , of all things , and blow me down , blow me up if I have n't just found out how to get over the Mountains of Zound at long , long last . |
| 18 | Then she cried for Adam , cried because she was suddenly frightened he was dead , cried for the loss of something she had only just found . |
| 19 | One of the children was crying loudly and Mrs Bennet said , ‘ Ee are , queen , here 's a biscuit I just found in me pinny pocket . ’ |
| 20 | He swung her round and set her on her feet , looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water . |
| 21 | Do n't forget that caffeine is n't just found in tea and coffee — it 's a major component of cola drinks and chocolate , whether in a cup or a box ! |
| 22 | ‘ I 've only just found out something ’ said Mrs H. , a tidy , respectable young woman with a husband in regular work , though with small wages . |
| 23 | ‘ How about something really radical on the dangers of sunbathing without blocker ? ’ said Helena , who had just found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there at the beginning of the summer . |
| 24 | I 've just found a note to myself saying that you 'd like a Harrap 's French-English Tin Tin au Pays des Mots — written at Christmas . |
| 25 | It 's just found the first one , bombed out , told you to fix it . |
| 26 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 27 | Well , let me tell you — you 've just found one who is . ’ |
| 28 | I have just found your September 92 issue , and having spent most of the day with my nose between its covers I shall put it on order with my local Smiths on Monday . |
| 29 | In a couple of months , they will be moving to larger premises , which Walker had just found when I visited him . |
| 30 | It would be madness for me to refuse you through hurt pride when all I want to do is be with you , as I have just found out . ’ |