Example sentences of "we just [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England .
2 Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal .
3 ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it .
4 ‘ In the race we just went for them .
5 ‘ The Italians were bigger , stronger and older than us but in the end we just went for their throats .
6 and er we just went for about ten minutes , but she 's alright in herself
7 We just went to it .
8 And we just went through them , the same procedure as it is for all our policies , which is eight point two , five , growth percent .
9 Cos we just went onto the front
10 Yes , we just went round the houses and we said to the people , you know , why we was getting nicked , and they just signed their names .
11 Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits .
12 he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together .
13 In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig .
14 It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall ,
15 ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch .
16 She had quite a large party staying in the village and so we just gathered in the kitchen and talked .
17 By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep .
18 And we just lay on the floor laughing because it was just getting from bad to worse .
19 We just got ta get there .
20 Well we just got ta find something that 's prickable then to use ai n't we ?
21 We just got into all the old flicks from the Seventies , ’ says Kool-Tee .
22 We just got in there and hammered them out ! ’
23 We just touched on this on Tuesday night .
24 We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed !
25 er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought
26 But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing .
27 We just looked at each other .
28 But it 's still right on that , on that turning point , it 's a hundred and fifty years after the John Trevisa theme that we just looked at .
29 Erm David we 've just obviously completed a , a plan of your future , we just looked at areas which we
30 Perhaps you did n't buy one , perhaps we just looked at it .
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