Example sentences of "[verb] me [pers pn] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Why ’ Frejji was saying , ’ somebody told me they saw just about the nastiest bunch , come in lately . |
| 2 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 3 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 4 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 5 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
| 6 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
| 7 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 8 | ‘ Bridget tells me you 've just began your National Service , Len , ’ said Clare . |
| 9 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 10 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 11 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |