Example sentences of "you [verb] just [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 2 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
| 3 | And you 'd just had a plastic cold just the favourite because for our Martine and pull her along in it . |
| 4 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 5 | you know just have a little bit off it |
| 6 | Well , you 've just said a word , it costs three hundred pounds ! |
| 7 | You 've just gone a lot quieter |
| 8 | The question begs , you have to say , How come when you 've just retarmacked a road That 's right , electricity board , gas , erm cable T V company ? |
| 9 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 10 | He rates the rush he gets from Ecstasy very highly : ‘ It 's like you 've just scored a goal in a football match for three hours . ’ |
| 11 | He recalls that in 1981 , when he ‘ crossed over ’ to become the first , and so far only , sports writer ever to win the ‘ Journalist of the Year ’ Award , Colin Hart , a sports columnist with the Sun , approached him and said ‘ Congratulations Hughie , you 've just struck a blow for the Toy Department ! ’ |
| 12 | Charles was all welcoming smiles , ‘ You 've just missed a board meeting , old man . |
| 13 | " You might say , Chuck , " he said over his shoulder , that you 've just witnessed a very clear demonstration of the principle on which every empire in history 's ever been built . |
| 14 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 15 | You 've just done a TV series and book about the history of climbing . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a bit of an aphrodisiac apparently , ’ I explained — ‘ which is tremendously useful when you 've just done a two-and-a-half hour show , driven 45 minutes home , eaten a baked potato the size of a human foot , scrubbed off two layers of greasepaint , nose shading , violet eyeshadow and seemingly permanent mascara , brushed one and a half cans of lacquer off the split ends , flossed the gums , massaged the bridgework , popped the ear plugs over the acupuncture needle , put the airplane mask over the anti-ageing eye cream and — pièce de lack of résistance — applied the ‘ Tonic Bust ’ to prevent anything descending further south during the night . |
| 17 | Hang on hang on you 've just written a quarter you said four twelfths . |
| 18 | Now , if you can be reasonably precise , erm careful , about what the procedure to be followed is , you 've just written a program . |
| 19 | you 've just finished a course of antibiotics , have n't you ? |
| 20 | And it 's wired right into the power amp , so you do n't have to worry about tone circuits or reverbs — you 've just got a good sound to play along with . |
| 21 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 22 | So you 've just got a curtain round it ? |
| 23 | She says no you 've just got a very infect on your chest , but , I did have a cold that night , yeah sneeze |
| 24 | Trevor with respect you 've just wasted a hell of a lot of time for you and me have n't you ? |
| 25 | You 've just introduced a new method of measurement for all planners Mr . |
| 26 | And you 've just bought a house . |
| 27 | you 've just bought a car or you 've got a car you can take it and the police look over it to see if it 's alright . |
| 28 | You 've just signed a new striker , I told him , and I 'll give you three guesses who it is . |
| 29 | Maybe you need to track down an old kitchen manufacturer , or perhaps you 've just signed a contract to get rid of a high-pressure salesman , and are worried because there does n't appear to be a get-out clause . |
| 30 | As for ‘ bookmatched ’ , well … imagine you 've just lifted a book from a library shelf . |