Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and [pron] [was/were] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head jerked round and he was just in time to see the pack stream out from the bushes only thirty yards away , noses still glued to the invisible trail they were following , and lope swiftly towards the house . |
| 2 | No , they ran across the top of the water and hammered desperately at the air with their wings and then , just when it was obvious they were n't going to achieve anything , they suddenly did ; the water dropped away and there was just the slow creak of wings pulling the goose up into the sky . |
| 3 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 4 | But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them . |
| 5 | but I got upstairs and it was just a lot of people going That was weird though like couples disappearing in rooms and sort of |
| 6 | His brother often slept in and it was just a bit more noticeable this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ We ran out and he was just lying there on the ground . |