Example sentences of "[pron] just [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I just stared at the wall . |
2 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
3 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
4 | I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this ! |
5 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
6 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
7 | I just look , I just look at the shelves and I look to see what they 've got and |
8 | I just look at the aircraft and wonder ‘ Is this one going to stay up there ’ . |
9 | Er can I just say at the outset that some of the material we 'll be covering this morning may well be classified . |
10 | Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up . |
11 | I just wonder at the necessity of it in an area that already has two golf-courses to its credit . |
12 | As soon as you get the ball you just run at the goal , the opposition making no attempt to stop you ! |
13 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
14 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
15 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
16 | She just stares at the floor and rocks . |
17 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
18 | So , can we just look at the extract that was given , what language would it have been translated from , incidentally ? |
19 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |
20 | Why did n't they just stop at the sea ? |
21 | Some are completely on another plateau , you know , they 're just not in the real world ; they wander round and do n't make eye-contact unless they 're talking to you ; they just look at the ceiling all the time when they 're lecturing . |
22 | They just look at the report in the paper and say how on earth was this man fined fifty pounds for this offence . |
23 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
24 | Well to start off with she had it just trimmed at the neck . |
25 | He just stared at the Duchess . |
26 | He just stared at the water . |
27 | He just stared at the tablecloth . |
28 | He just looked at the cookies on the table and at the cake Mama had just frosted . |
29 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
30 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |