Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 2 | It was only when I started to receive my magazine that I realised just how courageous the lifeboat crews are . |
| 3 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 4 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 5 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |
| 6 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 9 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 10 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 13 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 14 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 15 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 16 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 17 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 18 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 19 | There was no point having an arm with a gun attached to it , so I decided just to have the gun itself , rather like a tank . ’ |
| 20 | erm and I 'd just got one comment that I like to make and er then the question . |
| 21 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 22 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 23 | and I 'd just finished training as a nurse and I thought I was really cool and calm and I would of reported it , but I did n't |
| 24 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 25 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 26 | Came home , she came home with me , she came home with me , and I 'd just learned to play the piano , and I played that , it was , we 'd just come from Guides , you see , and I I was only young . |
| 27 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 28 | And I 'd just got in at about oh half three . |
| 29 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 30 | and I 'd just peeled an orange to be honest |