Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 2 | Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience . |
| 3 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 4 | Terry was standing at the landing window , Rose just retreating down the stairs . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , I think you got just keep away from the from the centre . |
| 6 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Putting aside their more immediate patriotic considerations , the Lions ' selectors and coaches might be glad enough to have as much supporting evidence as possible with regard to eschewing token selections , made just to keep all four countries happy , and that could certainly make a difference to the size of the Scottish contingent . |
| 11 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 12 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 13 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 14 | But then we 'd just eaten Mars Bars with everything else . |
| 15 | You 'd just eaten |
| 16 | But , with everything exploding about me , I still had n't got myself back together when the message came from your hotel to say you 'd just checked in . ’ |
| 17 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 18 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 20 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 21 | I did n't know he 'd just shot Mr. Banks . ’ |
| 22 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 23 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 24 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 25 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 26 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 27 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 28 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 29 | Yeah , well tell him you 'll put him in his diary , I I would have thought if you 'd just sent him the notes to each meeting he would come if he would , if he could , and if he ca n't , he ca n't . |
| 30 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |