Example sentences of "they [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly he began to draw his hands towards each other , giving them an odd little twitch of the wrists as they met just above his head . |
| 2 | At the same time the woman moved , incredibly quickly — ; she seemed to glide quite upright , and they met just beyond the platform roof in the sunlight . |
| 3 | The timing seemed fortuitous , for they expanded just as demand was booming in the Middle East . |
| 4 | But unfortunately , again , we 're goi , going back history-wise , the civils and the mechanicals and electricals , and you 've only got ta go to London and see what palatial places they got just virtually adjacent to the Houses of Parliament you 'll find mechanical engineers , and also the civil engineers in Bird Cage Walk . |
| 5 | They lived just over an hour away from the venue but decided to stay to make the most of a rare luxury . |
| 6 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 7 | They made just enough money busking for him not to have to go back to that . |
| 8 | Oh For recreation , oh they made just er as I said , They did er throwing the pudding stone and they di the And the caber and if the p hammer , and er a lot of them used to play quoits . |
| 9 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 10 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 11 | They stopped just short of where the path ended in the yard . |
| 12 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 13 | Richard Jones 's comparison experiment , briefly reported above , showed that users felt lost if they moved just one step from their original searches by choosing to " look at books classified near this one " , although the dialogue would appear to be a reasonable compromise between clarity and verbosity ( Figures 5.6 and 5.7 ) . |
| 14 | But boiled , they tasted just like wet newspaper . |
| 15 | The cat owners ' assessment of their health had returned to what they reported just before acquiring a feline friend , but dog owners continued to report improvements in their health and well being . |
| 16 | Driving their Peugeot 205GTi , they dropped just 17 penalties on a difficult 80-mile route which started from Banbridge . |
| 17 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 18 | Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen . |
| 19 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 20 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 21 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'd just started walking down a narrow street outside the club when all suddenly a taxi hit Michael and knocked him down . |
| 23 | Victor and Anna were fishing ; they 'd just caught something and were shouting to us . |
| 24 | But also of course there was this propaganda from from the government you know that erm they 'd just got to keep up morale and this was one one way as you will see in a minute of how they did it . |
| 25 | And then at that time they 'd just opened . |
| 26 | They 'd just sunk that pit and they were starting to turn coal and the the the miners were straggling back to the new pit you see ? |
| 27 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 28 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 29 | Oh no , they 'd just a pony . |
| 30 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |