Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | He secretly helped just about everyone in the town . ’ |
| 2 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |
| 3 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 4 | The grim face , the extravagant salute and the loud stamp of his boots on the floorboards only fell just short of the military crime most disliked by superiors , dumb insolence . |
| 5 | By the way , I really must correct a false impression that I inadvertently gave just now ; I said you would be permitted to observe our sacred and ancient rites . |
| 6 | And Christie Goldsborough , who owned those pawnshops and those taverns could find out if he so wished just where her satin had gone . |
| 7 | How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé . |
| 8 | I obviously had just before the war but I do n't , do n't , did n't remember then until afterwards . |
| 9 | I thought you only had just normal goldfish in there |
| 10 | At the same time the British leaders , although they soon realized just how much they would have to concede in order to regain American confidence and backing , were largely unshaken in their belief that in Middle Eastern affairs they were the true experts compared with the Americans . |
| 11 | The cluster erm I was always very aware of this bit so it made me you know aware that there are things you can do and watching everybody just seemed just the answer inside you . |
| 12 | I think I 'd had I finished my breakfast when , no I think you just came just as I was about to take my first mouthful of cereal . |
| 13 | I just thought just before er , I come over , I says , just thought I says , I suppose he 'll take her over there Saturday wo n't he ? |
| 14 | If she was n't mistaken , someone above had just licked his backside and , true to naval tradition , he was passing the reprimand down . |
| 15 | I just had just over a pound |
| 16 | it could have been just because it 's , just had just newly changed hands and it might have |
| 17 | Angela , I 've rung Angela this morning cos Geoff says will I ring her and sort it out and she just said just alter it . |
| 18 | Oh I just wondered Just wondered who it could be . |
| 19 | Folly felt something burst inside her , and she no longer wanted just to escape Luke ; she wanted to strike out at him ; hurt him as he had hurt her . |
| 20 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 21 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 22 | That child always vanished just when you needed her . |
| 23 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 24 | He still kept just in front of me . |
| 25 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 26 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 27 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 28 | By the late S the CNES annual budget still hovered just below I billion dollars , but this relatively modest sum represented over 40 per cent of Europe 's total expenditure on space . |
| 29 | ( It was a nifty move to be out of the country because prices back home had just been ‘ liberated ’ , sending inflation on basic commodities soaring . ) |
| 30 | His father employed a succession of nannies , who always left just when he was beginning to get used to them . |