Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 2 | Yes , something certainly was over , but something else had just began to be thought about . |
| 3 | All went so well after that that there had just had to be one monumental disaster waiting to happen , Leith later realised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And so in the blazing heat of the next day Martha was supplied with a small replica of the new green , black and gold Jamaican flag and hoisted on to her stepfather 's shoulders at the gates of what had just ceased to be the colonial governor 's mansion , to see a small erect figure in the back of a Rolls-Royce drive slowly away . |