Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 2 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 3 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 4 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 5 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 6 | The following morning , I 'd just got out of bed when he started barking to get out . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd just got out of bed — I was half asleep , ’ she tried , without much conviction . |
| 8 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 9 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 10 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 11 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 12 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I was twenty-one , I had just come out of Sweden and my eyes were like saucers . |
| 15 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 16 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 17 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 18 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 19 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 20 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 21 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 22 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 23 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
| 24 | It was Dinah , with her arms full of packages ; she had just come out of a cab . |
| 25 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 26 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
| 27 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 28 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 29 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
| 30 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |