Example sentences of "[vb past] just [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 2 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 3 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 4 | In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating . |
| 5 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 6 | In the first attack , he 'd just popped into a shop in the Lake District — and returned to find the panels of his £52,000 BMW 750i all kicked in . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , Karen , ’ he smiled at her as if she were an acquaintance he 'd just spotted in a crowd . |
| 8 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
| 9 | Try walking into that dressing-room after they had just lost by an innings . |
| 10 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 11 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 12 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 13 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 14 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 15 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 16 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 17 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 18 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 19 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 20 | I had just moved into a flat with my boyfriend and I was beginning to feel very guilty . |
| 21 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 22 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 23 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 24 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 25 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 26 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 27 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 28 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 29 | Iain had just bitten into a cheese sandwich and his mouth was full , so I do n't think she heard him properly . |
| 30 | She had just slipped into a black taffeta skirt and was buttoning the front of her blouse when there was a knock on the door . |