Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd just imagined it , like she 'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps she moved just before Melanie died , ’ Bridget suggested . |
| 4 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 5 | Ever since she 'd seen a real arachnid close up she shuddered just at the word . |
| 6 | The captain pointed out she had just spent all her friend had left her . |
| 7 | Her car had broken down , she had as good as lied to her parents , and had somehow managed to offend the man whom her sister would bend over backwards not to offend — and now she had just practically told Cara , when there was n't the remotest chance of it happening , that the damnable interview was in the bag . |
| 8 | Three years ago she had just recently left college , one of thousands of graduates looking for a job . |
| 9 | Fortunately she retired just in time ; and saw his dark eyes , which had been so sympathetic , gleam for a second behind his little round glasses with amusement , with a kind of mockery , as she so promptly retreated . |
| 10 | That drastic formula meant , for instance , that the ballet turned out to be full of controlled balances on one leg , which until then she had just not been able to sustain . |
| 11 | Kate , looking dubious , watched the satisfaction in her father 's face , then she remembered just exactly how Ace had managed to get her to do what he wanted . |
| 12 | Whatever he was up to , whatever his intentions towards her , at least she 'd just discovered something about her feelings towards him . |
| 13 | Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat . |
| 14 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |
| 15 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 16 | Doctors believe life-saving oxygen administered at birth when she weighed just over 1lb 8oz led to abnormal development of the retina . |
| 17 | From nowhere she knew just as instinctively that the woman who married this man would always feel secure and cherished by his strength and kindness . |
| 18 | The clang of a sword blade ringing on the stones where she had just been standing made the order unnecessary . |
| 19 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |