Example sentences of "[vb past] they just " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 2 | Right , erm I told them just throw these out ! |
| 3 | She slept with boys ( and men — some lecturers , too , fell by her wayside ) as if it were the most natural thing in the world ( ‘ indeed it is , it is ! ’ ) , then dropped them just as casually in the morning with a smile of disbelief that they should expect anything more of her , or any other woman . |
| 4 | So when the bit of paper came they just ignore it |
| 5 | He allowed them just enough milk to supplement the grass they were learning to eat and then pushed them aside , replacing their mouths on the teats with his fingers , squeezing the milk in short squirts into a frothing bowl on the ground below . |
| 6 | Papers abroad realised they just could not match us — and did n't even bother to try . |
| 7 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 8 | So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century . |
| 9 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 10 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 11 | It took them just 93 minutes yesterday to wrap up a crushing 10-wicket win , with Akram taking three wickets in 14 balls and Smith left high and dry on 84 . |
| 12 | fraid so … only took them just over a minute as Paul Devlin poked the ball home from a corner |
| 13 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 14 | I thought they just pratted about |
| 15 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 16 | I thought they just called it a domestic |
| 17 | I thought they just did sides . |
| 18 | I bought them just for the bag though . |
| 19 | EIGHTY factory workers were looking forward to a very merry Christmas — until their boss gave them just one bottle of whisky between them . |
| 20 | The reflections from the street lamps gave them just enough light to see what they were doing . |
| 21 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 22 | And yet , ’ Corbett laughed abruptly , ‘ did they just offer their throats to the murderer ? ’ |
| 23 | So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ? |
| 24 | So did they just have you on right away ? |
| 25 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 26 | Did they just pack up one day and go back to Germany ? |
| 27 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 28 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 29 | Well why did they just , why was it rejected |
| 30 | And then how , did they just vote for them ? |