Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 2 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 3 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 4 | The ground around Bilbao rises to over 2,000 feet , and our route involved flying just above the tops of nearby hills . |
| 5 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 6 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |
| 7 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 8 | Spending was projected at R72,900 million , a 9.7 per cent increase on the previous year , with revenue expected to reach just under R65,000 million , a 7.3 per cent increase on the previous year . |
| 9 | It was the same roaring she 'd heard just before she and the cottage were swept away . |
| 10 | Yesterday , she 'd given just the cupboards she needed to use a superficial wipe-over . |
| 11 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 12 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 13 | The next day the boy seemed to work just as hard and just as long , but he only chopped down eight trees . |
| 14 | Everybody working for the Maquis knew about her loss , but no one helped — although their local information gathering was first-class , and they seemed to know just about everything that happened in Paris . |
| 15 | He seemed to know just where to tap , and how hard , and how long for , and bit by bit the boy 's lungs cleared and he began to breathe more easily . |
| 16 | It could have been cut back hugely , and told to concentrate just on defending troops in the field . |
| 17 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 18 | In so short a time she 'd forgotten just how big he was . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |
| 20 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
| 21 | She reckoned that she 'd considered just about every possible course . |
| 22 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 23 | And there was a lot of luck in life : some people would go to jail for badger-baiting ; but if they 'd baited just the foxes they 'd like as not be having sherry the next day with the Master of the Foxhounds . |
| 24 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 25 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 26 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 27 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 28 | If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today . |
| 29 | But it seemed to underline just how completely she was falling into his power . |
| 30 | The head , which he judged to weigh just over two pounds , was blackened on one side with congealed blood from which one or two coarse grey hairs sprouted like whiskers . |