Example sentences of "[vb past] see just " in BNC.

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1 And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was .
2 She remembered the dark movement she had seen just before the link had been severed .
3 But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions .
4 As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ .
5 I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment .
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