Example sentences of "he just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He just dropped me off , ’ she said . |
| 2 | He just turned his back and walked away , leaving me in the hall . |
| 3 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 4 | He just let the place go . |
| 5 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 6 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 7 | He just looked at me as if to say ‘ how did you know I was doing that ? ’ |
| 8 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 9 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 10 | But he just stood still and gazed at some withered autumn flowers . |
| 11 | Why should n't he just be getting old ? |
| 12 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 13 | When most people bring their catch of a lifetime to him , they do n't realise that he just wants the skin , not the flesh . |
| 14 | He just likes being a child . ’ |
| 15 | Lovat had never mentioned anything about bodyguards , he just said , ‘ Get out in front there , Piper , and keep playing your pipes . ’ |
| 16 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 17 | Every appearance of the boy Samuel is greeted with , ‘ Ah , does n't he just remind you of Kevin/Michael/little Christy ? |
| 18 | He just stood there , right at the front with the curtains at his back , staring into the auditorium . |
| 19 | And , at one point , Malcolm must have asked him if he 'd consider coming over to join the band , because Hell wrote to us via him saying that it sounded interesting but that because money and visas would be a problem he just could n't . |
| 20 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 21 | But as he could n't play it that well , he just could n't get his ideas across . |
| 22 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 23 | He just stared at her . |
| 24 | The best man said he was n't used to speeches , he nearly had n't arrived at all himself , but he just wanted to thank Father here for all he had done and the people of the bride here for this feast and all the trouble they had gone to , and then he proposed the toast . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe he just sent the telegram and a letter will come after a few days , ’ Maggie tried to soothe . |
| 26 | ‘ Thom called to say he 'd be a day late , and then he just hung up . ’ |
| 27 | He did n't ever change himself , he just went out with organised women . ’ |
| 28 | He just made a crack about Maurice needing to sleep quiet in his bed . |
| 29 | As it was , he just worked for me . ’ |
| 30 | He just brings stuff for Ibrahim and then goes . |