Example sentences of "they just [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jim Courier and Andre Agassi roomed together at Nick Bolletieri 's tennis academy in Florida , one of them just had to leave the door ajar . |
| 2 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 3 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 4 | The rest of them just paused and hesitated . |
| 5 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 6 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 7 | David had a prawn salad sandwich and a cheese and onion sandwich and I 'm not kidding you , the sandwich was like that , they just filled it and it was |
| 8 | They just straightened |
| 9 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’ |
| 11 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |
| 12 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 13 | They just saw the opportunity this time and took it — but it could have been prevented . ’ |
| 14 | They just told me he was . |
| 15 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 16 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 17 | They just knew . |
| 18 | But oh they could rustle it and they 'd they just knew by the just did this with it you know they would know . |
| 19 | Did n't you They just knew , |
| 20 | At about 11pm we explained my husband would have to go on his nebuliser but they just continued . |
| 21 | that was cos of the fat , the fat so as they just lay it over the top and put the potatoes and onions |
| 22 | They just worried about themselves |
| 23 | My mother is a very nurturing woman , says Kate Burton , their elder daughter , I know that they just suited each other perfectly at that time . |
| 24 | It was a pity , because her parents were n't bad sorts ; like his own , they just believed everything they read in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 25 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 26 | They just wiped the cities out completely , raised them to the ground , but there were still people that survived it . |
| 27 | Well they just er they just forked them they they brought up the side what I said the boss , you see . |
| 28 | They just finished building that even |
| 29 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 30 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |