Example sentences of "[noun pl] just [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words just came out without my planning to say them . |
| 2 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 3 | Needless to say , these mega-rich popsters just swan around in wellies every other weekend for the benefit of the colour supplements ‘ Day In The Life ’ features and leave all the actual farming to peasants who get up at dawn and get paid in potatoes . |
| 4 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
| 5 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 6 | I was also taken by the way the cute-looking tawny owls just sat there on their perches , looking at each other with one eye open . |
| 7 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 8 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 9 | It just lifted the roofing from the base of the stack and hen houses just scattered all over the place . |
| 10 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 11 | Two chaps just walked down through there oh I suppose they were upper fortyish they could have been older |
| 12 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 13 | No , we 're not doing horoscopes just looking ahead to Saturday afternoon . |
| 14 | Of Shakespeare he says , ‘ Being a great poet the lines just tumbled out of him , and , like the whore an artist sometimes is , he distributes his favours to undeserving characters . |
| 15 | Losers £100 million fortunes just dribbled away to nothing in no more than a couple of years |
| 16 | He was a man of forty-five , at the top of his profession , fresh from new triumphs in an international career , with further possibilities just opening ahead of him . |
| 17 | If you live alone and are able to get out , there are many voluntary organisations just crying out for helpers . |
| 18 | So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there . |
| 19 | ‘ Funny , is n't it , how things just slip away without you noticing ? |
| 20 | Well you do n't know you 're on it until you hit it and then you just lose your steering and your wheels just go all over the place |
| 21 | If there are any problems just call down to Mrs Aitken . |
| 22 | I prayed the car would stop , but its lights just swept past behind the house . |
| 23 | Er it is important I think , that we do n't er have too many regulations , that 's why I have some sympathy for what my honourable friend , the member for South Hamms , was saying , that we do n't er regulate to the point where firms just go out of business and give up , that it 's too expensive and it 's too burdensome . |
| 24 | The virgin forest which is hacked down to make way for the cattle is virtually free , and when the soil is exhausted the ranchers just move on to another plot . |
| 25 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |
| 26 | Isle of Wight Isle of Wight , ferry , yeah , and we , we all buy , we all buy chips yeah , and the next minute , you know , we 're all walking into the arcade all these girls just come up to us and start taking chips . |
| 27 | But do members just go along for the ride ? |
| 28 | In the su around about this area , the the local housing estates , a great many of our investing members just live practically round the corner , so we get to know them very well . |
| 29 | The players just came out of the woodwork . |
| 30 | I make these journeys just to get out of the house . |