Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 2 | Val did a brilliant job getting everyone else to Le Bourget using public transport ; I went on the bike with no map and only a vague idea where Le Bourget was , and every Frenchman I asked just waved me straight on ( lies ! ) , but I got there somehow and we had a very enjoyable , if unscheduled , visit . |
| 3 | I realized just what a macho I was at heart . |
| 4 | It was some while — I mean , a day or so — before I realized just what ‘ left it ’ really meant . |
| 5 | I was recently talking to the mother of a four year old boy about his progress at learning his letters , when I realized just how responsible and vulnerable she felt about his lack of progress , and that started me thinking about the educational process and the pressures that we put on ourselves and our children to succeed . |
| 6 | I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far . |
| 7 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 8 | It was only when I started to receive my magazine that I realised just how courageous the lifeboat crews are . |
| 9 | ‘ When death was a distinct possibility , I realised just how precious life really is . |
| 10 | I realised just now that you had to be the one to finish it . ’ |
| 11 | It was only recently I realised just how many animals have to be taken into care because of their owner 's neglect . |
| 12 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 13 | I was delighted to be informed that I was one of the prize winners , but my delight turned to disappointment when I realised just what accepting the prize would involve . |
| 14 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 15 | I registered just after my eighteenth birthday and had my medical almost at once . |
| 16 | ‘ I married for money , and I got just what I wanted . |
| 17 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 18 | I expected just about this . |
| 19 | I tried just about every diesel and the Peugeots performed better than other manufacturers ' diesels I tried . ’ |
| 20 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 21 | I mentioned just about , and I got this this erm letter from her . |
| 22 | ‘ I stopped just behind you but before I could get out of the car you were well away . |
| 23 | Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not |
| 24 | This is a conference which keeps very much in mind the symbolic advice offered in that pamphlet , to which I alluded just now , the one which tells you how to lay out election leaflets . |
| 25 | I woke just before lunchtime to find Wavebreaker still sailing eastwards . |
| 26 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 27 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 28 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 29 | ‘ They said I 'd just got 50-60 years wear out of the knee in 15 years . ’ |
| 30 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |