Example sentences of "just [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People just got to know about her . |
| 2 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 3 | ‘ We knew nothing about what sort of paper to buy , we just tried to learn from books . |
| 4 | It was n't shock , exactly ; the world just seemed to withdraw to a vast , echoing distance . |
| 5 | There she was , wearing a mac , a crimplene frock over her body which just seemed to hang like a cheese from her shoulders , a little woolly hat and NHS specs , and the inevitable shopping bag . |
| 6 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 7 | No it just seemed to spring to mind . |
| 8 | But I never , it just seemed to click as a |
| 9 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 10 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 11 | They just happened to pick on mine . |
| 12 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |
| 13 | just happened to mention in the night says I 'd like a white telly you know , go a bit more with , with the decor |
| 14 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 15 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
| 16 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 17 | ‘ Is it true Old Red just happened to pass by that morning ? ’ |
| 18 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 19 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 20 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 21 | I just needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 22 | Evelyn let out a gasp of delight which she just managed to turn into a disillusioned sob . |
| 23 | Then , pouncing , it had aimed a blow of its great bill at Fiver , who just managed to dodge in time . |
| 24 | I just preferred to think of dead fish rather than Syl . |
| 25 | ‘ How ? ’ she just had to ask for clarification . |
| 26 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 27 | I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened . |
| 28 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 29 | We just had to cope with it as best we could . |
| 30 | ‘ In the second half , we just had to hang in there . ’ |