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 . |