Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing .
2 It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend .
3 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 ?
4 I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house .
9 Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out .
10 I had just got to the tricky bit when in walked this friend with the usual enquiries .
11 I had just got to the part when I told them ‘ You will have to take the oath of allegiance to … ’ when one of my staff tapped me on the shoulder and said ‘ Ma'am , the King is dead . ’
12 When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl .
13 Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her .
14 Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation .
15 She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself .
16 Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him .
17 Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce .
18 It was , of course , poor thing , out of practice at making decisions of the kind she had just put to it ; it had , Anna considered , been given an easy ride for twenty years .
19 She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs .
20 It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite .
21 ‘ 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 .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place .
24 Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten .
25 That small problem solved itself readily : one door stood open with Bruce Davidson leaning on the side in a careful presentation of a man who had just happened to be passing .
26 That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates .
27 so I said but I 'm not disappointed but she said just listen to what I 've got to say , she said , erm , because anybody else that 's failed we 've just said I 'm sorry we ca n't have you , but she said with you , we all feel that you 've got so much to offer she said I 'm gon na offer you a relief post which means that you can go into other people 's ho er other homes , all around , all different hospitals if somebody 's short , they can call on you and I said could it be a full time job , will it give me enough money to say that I 'm working ?
28 as if something had just occurred to her , Bella turned her head to look at Marie : ‘ Must be a bit of a shock to you an ’ all .
29 One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified .
30 All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised .
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