Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 2 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 3 | This seemed just too good to be true . |
| 4 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 5 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 6 | Dexter assumed this happened just after Nicola had been called to the phone . |
| 7 | This had just opened the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first season at Covent Garden , to rapturous acclaim , but a month or two later John had decided that the costumes , ‘ although very gorgeous and great fun to wear are , in my opinion , far too ordinary for a ballet , they are more like costumes for a historical play … |
| 8 | ‘ Our centre half had just taken part in an all-night ice skating event for charity . |
| 9 | This left just three hours before darkness in which to follow and film the culminating procession to the burial-cliffs , and to return to the Rante to cover whatever pyromanic tendencies we might have managed to rekindle there . |
| 10 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 11 | Some had just been too good to miss . |
| 12 | Nothing much happened just before we left . |
| 13 | Many of these had just as much sense of loyalty and devotion to the church as the middle classes . |
| 14 | He was talking about the theatre and the writers he liked : Arden , Bond , Orton , Osborne , Wesker , each suffocated just by being in his mouth for a minute . |
| 15 | If we all realised just how intimately lonely we all are , the word and feeling ‘ lonely ’ could be cancelled from life 's experience and we would relate to one another in a more true fashion since we would be aware of the limitations of relationships . |
| 16 | It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 17 | It all happened just the day before and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 18 | This all happened just before Easter , at the end of my penultimate term at Sussex . |
| 19 | Yeah but they all went just over a year and we thought |
| 20 | It all took just over a bio-day , after which we drifted down from the Valve and touched ground at the spaceport . |
| 21 | But they all had just more questions for me ! |
| 22 | Well , hang on , we 've got one pizza shared out between four people , right , erm how many pizzas would you go , you think that was just right that , that was wonderful , we all had just the right amount of pizza , when we had a quarter , when we had one shared between the four of us |
| 23 | Cultural standards in the court have risen since George III remarked to Edward Gibbon , when the latter had just finished his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ‘ Another big fat book ! |
| 24 | The latter had just changed his name to Freygood and was preparing to move to Montreal having recently married a young Jewish girl called Ruby . |
| 25 | All three of those had just arrived the day before . |
| 26 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 27 | That left just one door , and he hesitated for a moment before opening it . |
| 28 | Nothing like that had just happened in the subway . |
| 29 | That had just started screening as part of the ITV Autumn Season and so suddenly George Birkitt was a familiar name . |
| 30 | But that had just been the beginning of the turmoil . |