Example sentences of "she [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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1 | Each week she receives just over £100 in benefits , but has only enough money left to feed her children after paying bills , a mortgage and housing repairs . |
2 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
3 | She wants just the plain white one ? |
4 | Her recent television credits include leads in the series Buccaneer , The Professionals , The Consultant , Into the Labyrinth , Lytton 's Diary , Magnum , Seagull Island , and her film credits include The First Great Train Robbery , The Bitch , Morecambe and Wise 's Night Train to Murder , Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again , Universal City , After Darkness , and she has just completed Salome , playing Herodias . |
5 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
6 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
7 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
8 | She has just taken office as president of the British Computer Society , and needs to make it jump from the seventies , where some believe it is still stuck , into the nineties . |
9 | She has just finished a portrait of seven-year-old Tulip Dempster , a Pekingese , commissioned by Lady Camilla for Nigel Dempster 's birthday — the second one she has done for the family — and a portrait of Mr and Mrs John Menzies ' two dogs . |
10 | Although she spends most of her time in transit between one engagement and another , on arrival the destination often looks pretty like the place she has just left . |
11 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
12 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
13 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
14 | ‘ She has just telephoned . |
15 | Above right : Female C. managuense fans and two thousand-plus eggs she has just laid |
16 | She has just written a prayer letter and I quote from it . |
17 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
18 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
19 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
20 | She has just returned from interviewing rape victims in Bosnia during a nine-day mission led by the International League of Human Rights.While European Community officials estimate 20,000 women have been raped , Francoise Hampson says quantification is impossible . |
21 | She has just launched Starting Out — the real beginners ' workout and Fat Burning Workout — to help you burn off fat and lose weight . |
22 | She has just under £1 billion to spend and when she wants to go to the zoo she can chose between the two Christina and her husband Thierry bought for her . |
23 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
24 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
25 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |
26 | She has just this last year to go and er we hope for her sake everything goes well for her because she 's brilliant , and as you see I have to fly the flag for her because she 's |
27 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
28 | She is reading a letter she has just written to her parents . ] |
29 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
30 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |