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

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1 He made just two birdies .
2 He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time .
3 Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him .
4 Only I doubt if he realised just how seriously Mrs Kettle was taking him . ’
5 He limped just as Adam remembered .
6 At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest .
7 Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with .
8 ‘ I would , but he quit just after I got here . ’
9 Sitting down , he realized just how tired he was .
10 It was not until 1961 , when he settled in a village , that he realized just how big it could grow .
11 But then he applied just last summer for the Metropolitan .
12 Parsons left the NME before he became just another hack , taking with him memories like this :
13 There was one small question nagging him which he asked just as Samantha Lightbody was ringing off .
14 Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours .
15 After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show .
16 ‘ And did you hear the bad language he used just now ?
17 He stopped just in time , teetering on the edge .
18 He stopped just short of the swell of her breast .
19 He played just two reserve games in December 1990 before Jim Smith , the manager at the time , decided he was not worth £300,000 .
20 He 'd just tasted Mrs Venables ' cake and was cutting into Mrs Feather 's .
21 He 'd just begun .
22 At the time he 'd just started City Lights , a new shop in Covent Garden .
23 He 'd just sold his jukebox so we had the back seat piled up with records from it .
24 He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’
25 Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used .
26 When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’
27 He 'd just had a stroke
28 He 'd just remembered .
29 He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer .
30 In the end , he 'd just had to see .
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