Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would shuttle up with her equipment as soon as I got established just outside Uulaa 's territorial space . |
| 2 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 3 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 4 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 5 | And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . |
| 6 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 7 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |
| 9 | If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today . |
| 10 | But then I began to wonder just what I was going to write . |
| 11 | as if to prove myself wrong , a faint signal turned up a ‘ Maltravers ’ farthing of Charles I. I began to wonder just how old this site really was . |
| 12 | I dreaded to discover just what symptom of drug dependency I was witnessing , and wondered if I should shout for the big Jackson Chatterton to come and rescue me , but then Rickie turned his terrified gaze on to me . |
| 13 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 14 | I started coming just after Mike came — that was four seasons ago , and Martin he came two seasons ago and he used to live in the same street as me . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 16 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 17 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 18 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 19 | As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ . |
| 20 | What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home ! |
| 21 | If I had to pick just one short example of Cortot 's artistry for my desert island this would be high on my list . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , if I had to choose just one of these six cameras to serve all my picture-taking needs , this would be it . |
| 23 | But so many times before I had done just this thing , been reviled as a mindfucking bitch with a heart of stone . |
| 24 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 25 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 26 | If I had to select just two personal highlights from the many interesting presentations that were on offer , then I would firstly mention learning about the ideas and development of the inspirational Foxfire Teacher Network operating in a number of USA schools . |
| 27 | I looked at loads and told them I did n't like any and I wanted to wear just black . |
| 28 | I knew that the Falkland Islands were similar to Shetland in that both were a group of treeless islands in the middle of an ocean , and I wanted to see just how wild creatures — and birds in particular — had adapted as different species in what I imagined was a similar environment . |
| 29 | If I wanted to have just one , larger party , and bearing in mind the recession , I might copy a friend and give a wedding tea . |
| 30 | " I wanted to look just right , and I … it was dreadful . " |