Example sentences of "just [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it was so necessary and just applied myself to doing everything they told me . ’ |
| 2 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 3 | Andrew was in bed and she just whipped out so Nicky could say goodnight to her daddy . |
| 4 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 5 | I mean it just appalled me I think that we are all of us , if you like to a degree , tarred with the same brush are n't we ? |
| 6 | I said to Old Fishy do you have kids and he said yes they 're the apple of my eye and we just hugged each other right there in front of everyone and ever since I 've been wondering what it means . |
| 7 | Still worse , however , were visits to a Kilmarnock grandmother , a tough ‘ old tartar ’ of a truly ‘ grim disposition ’ , who ‘ just lived and lived and lived ’ in her spotless ‘ scrubbed white ’ house . |
| 8 | Just lived up there in the east wing and poured out all this stuff about fairies . |
| 9 | As things turned out , Benjamin just lived beyond the Victorian era and into the Edwardian : on Sunday 3 September 1905 he was in church about to play the organ for a children 's service when he collapsed . |
| 10 | But all that would be to ignore its symbolic potency in defying a despotic age just lived through and narrowly survived . |
| 11 | And other people say he just lived quietly in the town after learning his lesson . |
| 12 | I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever . |
| 13 | Doughboy … a giant of man who did n't drink or smoke and just lived for his studies , and his rowing . |
| 14 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 15 | We just li we just lived and that was the end of it . |
| 16 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 17 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 18 | and er , it was thirty six pound , but she knocked another three pound off cos there was a little mark on the front which just sponged off as soon as I got home . |
| 19 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 20 | you do n't by any chance want to borrow that four pound you just lent me do ya ? , wow |
| 21 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 22 | Francis just made a tragi-comic face and said : |
| 23 | This time Damien Cronin kept going a move that seemed about to die and Hastings just made the line near the corner . |
| 24 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 25 | Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance . |
| 26 | He just made a crack about Maurice needing to sleep quiet in his bed . |
| 27 | When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke . |
| 28 | And the postman says he only just made it through . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Just made it , ’ this strange young man said as he flopped down beside us . |
| 30 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |