Example sentences of "just [vb past] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 2 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 3 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 4 | ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied . |
| 5 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 6 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 7 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 8 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 9 | One just had to be manly about it . |
| 10 | The obvious response — of summoning in an exterminator team — just had to be wrong . |
| 11 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 13 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 14 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |
| 16 | I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 18 | Aubrey was probably right — she just wanted to be able to number him among her many admirers . |
| 19 | And suddenly she just wanted to be clean . |
| 20 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 21 | Okay , I just wanted to be clear we were n't finding an additional list of names of people who are authorised to do this . |
| 22 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |