Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 2 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |
| 3 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 4 | Quickly she read the article , then handed the paper to Fred , wondering why she felt as though the bottom had just fallen out of her world . |
| 5 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 6 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 7 | Bonard had just emerged on to the terrace . |
| 8 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 9 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 10 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 11 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 12 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 13 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |
| 14 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 15 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 16 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 17 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 18 | Steve said just get out of the office just get out of the office . |
| 19 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 20 | And in EastEnders Arthur Fowler had just come out of prison after getting into deep money trouble . |
| 21 | One of the young men had just come out of prison , and there were many cheerful jokes about his very short hair-cut . |
| 22 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 23 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 24 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 25 | I pondered on the Italian touch Id experienced early that Sunday afternoon , and reflected on why the rest of the weekend had just fizzled out into one empty blank . |
| 26 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |