Example sentences of "[noun] just [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so innocent of the ways of the world that Hari just shook her head in amazement . |
| 2 | The words just came out without my planning to say them . |
| 3 | Somehow the words just tumbled from her lips . |
| 4 | She hated herself for wanting to know , but the words just seemed to leap out . |
| 5 | She knew the terrible suffering that went with mental disorders like delusion and obsession , and the words just slipped out . |
| 6 | Shifty and Pointy just sat there , sinking lower under the window level . |
| 7 | and Richard goes no Rebecca just told me not to do it , so you should n't |
| 8 | Moodie squeaked in support whilst Ruthven just dismissed them all with one scathing look . |
| 9 | Corbett just grinned over his shoulder and led them out on to the beaten track down to the village of Woodstock . |
| 10 | Corbett just stared back and shook his head . |
| 11 | After that Corbett just had to wait , pleased to rest and stay in the monastery where he felt secure and safe . |
| 12 | Corbett just shook his head and slowly walked away . |
| 13 | Corbett just sat quiet . |
| 14 | Corbett just sat staring at the wet walls : the cell was narrow and fetid , a grating high in the wall gave a little air and light . |
| 15 | Corbett just sat motionless , impassive , until the Prince had recovered himself . |
| 16 | Sessions just got better and better . |
| 17 | But Mister Johnny just laughed ; he was bored with this game . |
| 18 | Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . |
| 19 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 20 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 21 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 22 | And as soon as the the first ones forefeet touch the deck of the boat , the boat just disappeared and it was the trolls that was taking him home . |
| 23 | But Jefferson just nodded , not in his usual jovial manner , and walked off with Brian Harley . |
| 24 | The Indian Agent just walked out , like it was settled . |
| 25 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 26 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 27 | He says that Andy just did n't fit in . |
| 28 | It 's a great guitar , which I also used for most of the rhythm parts , but then the Les Pauls just took over ! ’ |
| 29 | So one day my girlfriend just had enough and told them to fuck off . |
| 30 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |