Example sentences of "he [verb] just a " in BNC.
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1 | He put me down in the Brompton Road — very kind and understanding — saying ‘ If you walk from here , you 'll keep him waiting just a minute like all you ladies do . ’ |
2 | He put his hands to his throat , anything to ease the pain and help him to get just a little air … |
3 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
4 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
5 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
6 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
7 | With his skinhead haircut , Doc Marten boots and mind full of race-hate , he walked just a pace behind the Middlesbrough student and her sister as they neared their parents ' house . |
8 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
9 | He died just a few months before the war began , aged ninety-six . |
10 | Trooper Consiglio was killed in a firefight as the patrol retreated towards Syria , before Corporal Lane also developed hypothermia … he died just a few miles from the border . |
11 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
12 | He smiled just a little . |
13 | He hesitated just a fraction of a second before saying , ‘ Well … well , yes . |
14 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
15 | He conducts great concerts , and before long he will make the lame walk — and then he does just a good concert and people are disappointed . |
16 | Yeah , and if he becomes just an auto run it could just knock him back a bit , one of the crowd , you know , just another one |
17 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |