Example sentences of "[vb past] just [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right . |
| 3 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 4 | It was reasonable enough , but I 'd just signed a new contract with the company . |
| 5 | She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture . |
| 6 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 7 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 8 | She said it was all just paper talk because she 'd just had a gorgeous postcard from Mark but it gets to them , I can tell you . ’ |
| 9 | But the crucial thing he had n't told us was that his girlfriend was one of the operators involved in the ring , and he 'd just had a big row with her . |
| 10 | ‘ And we 'd just bought a new car . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd just finished a seven-day sentence in Holloway prison . |
| 12 | Now , he had just appointed a new Cabinet and he insisted that the would not leave until it had been formally approved by the Majles , or parliament , as the constitution demanded . |
| 13 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 14 | They had just done a big concert at the Albert Hall with an orchestra for an album called Snowgoose . |
| 15 | There was an inspirational maths teacher , Mr. Tahta , and the school had just built a new maths room , which the maths set had as their classroom . |
| 16 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 17 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 18 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 19 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 20 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 21 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 22 | The British people had just elected a Conservative Government , headed by Britain 's first ever woman Prime Minister , who had already earned the reputation of being ‘ the best man for the job ’ in the Conservative Party . |
| 23 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 24 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 25 | But that might have left you , the reader , with an empty feeling — like you had just eaten a dozen vol-au-vents when it was actually a three-course meal that you ordered . |
| 26 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |
| 27 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 28 | The hum of conversation was interrupted by Richard Ryder , who called for silence for the Prime Minister , and John Major had just started a short speech of thanks to their host , not only for his hospitality , but also for his creativity , when there was a thunderous noise of shouting and breaking glass outside . |
| 29 | At a hospital in Manchester , the midwives had just started a Teenage Parent Club . |
| 30 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |