Example sentences of "he just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just takes off . |
| 2 | He just springs about . " |
| 3 | He just carried on . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to grab his leg but he just carried on , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But today he just carried on eating his pot roast with his head down , paying no attention at all to his argumentative brood . |
| 6 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 7 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 8 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 9 | He just sang round about the house , aha . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried once , but he just clammed up completely . |
| 11 | When he cracks a joke or whatever he does in front of the class , he just turn round and laugh . |
| 12 | He just took out a knife and slashed the silk screen and that was that . ’ |
| 13 | He just came over to my desk , looked down at what I was writing and whispered , almost to himself , ‘ You 're as bad as your bloody father ! ’ |
| 14 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 15 | Three and he just came on and played the piano . |
| 16 | Well , I 'm sorry , he just came on so strong . |
| 17 | Apart from the GPR records , The Dog appeared on the much acclaimed ART EP with Kirk DeGiorgio and — ultimate accolade ! — released one on Detroit legend Carl Craig 's Planet E Label ( ‘ He just came round and had a chilli with us and we sorted it out ’ ) . |
| 18 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 19 | He just came up , he came here |
| 20 | So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper . |
| 21 | " He just came down here , and I made him a cup of tea and we said an act of contrition together . " |
| 22 | He just went on saying in a shocked way , as if he had lost his mind , ‘ You 're twenty-five , thirty years old ? |
| 23 | ’ And he just went on and on and on . |
| 24 | One of them reached over the moat to wrench hunks out of the hedge : I jumped backwards when the great muddy wrinkled trunk came swinging over , but Vern did n't , he just went on standing there , staring . |
| 25 | I begged him not to , but he just went on , heading straight for them . |
| 26 | No , there was no quarrel : he just went on to someone else , like he always did . |
| 27 | He just went on staring at her until she began to feel uncomfortable and agitated . |
| 28 | He just went on with his task , his eyes on the horse , his strong brown hand working methodically . |
| 29 | Thank you , child ! ’ and he just went on looking at me . |
| 30 | He just went off after Evensong . |