Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 2 | They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch . |
| 3 | behind him , where they look just as snug as mummies . |
| 4 | Yeah well th cos they 've been waiting up there on the thing and they 've land or they 've just been circ |
| 5 | Neither we , nor they knew just how flexible and responsive they 'd have to be . |
| 6 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 7 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 8 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 9 | And then , when I know what I 'm doing , I thought that they 'd just had that . |
| 10 | There 's still another shoe to drop on whether they can survive the maelstrom of pressures that they 've just plunged into . |
| 11 | except for the , the ones that they 've just started recently . |
| 12 | and people who have responded to circulars that they 've just sent out . |
| 13 | that they 've just , you know I mean some of the kids I do n't know where we were going me and Dave somewhere or other we were and there was some kids an and their attitude , you know , it 's well why should we do this , you know |
| 14 | that they 've just discounted users . |
| 15 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 16 | That they went just past the half-thousand was mainly due to Sohail , but the neat little Asif Mujtaba beavered away for 57 , and at tea the score stood at 252 for 2 , Sohail having gone to his century , the first ever for Pakistan in a Manchester Test , with an ondriven three from his 127th ball . |
| 17 | The pens had the ordinary steel nibs and it was essential that they had just the right amount of ink on them or blots resulted . |
| 18 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 19 | A great many crocodile tears were shed , for , since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership , they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office . |
| 20 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 21 | The Policy Advisory Committee expressed the view that ‘ some indecent acts other than sexual intercourse , especially if repeated over any length of time , can perhaps be as harmful as sexual intercourse , and that they represent just as much an abuse of the familial relationship as acts of sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 22 | He went on : ‘ They are normally engaged in planning non-emergency journeys but since there have not been any it was felt that they have just been sitting around socialising when others are working long hours . |
| 23 | It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’ |
| 24 | They have been collecting goodies from all over the globe , with no trouble or expense spared , and have recently announced that they have just paid a world record price for a rather small amount of tea . |
| 25 | On Saturday , 2nd February 1991 , four members of the B.C.R.S. Preservation Group paid a working visit to the Gwili Railway following a tip-off that they have just acquired a six wheel GWR passenger coach , which , when fully restored will be the fourth oldest coach in preservation . |
| 26 | I think that they have just opted out ; they can not afford to look after their land . |
| 27 | Yet the danger of both these kinds of literature is that they offer just the kinds of all-explaining and deterministic theories as the form of Marxism we reviewed earlier . |
| 28 | Okay , so they 've just done their demo , but then are they gon na take demo |
| 29 | would n't believe me so they say just one more thing |
| 30 | The professionals use clapper-boards for this , but sheets of paper with the numbers written in felt-tip pen can be held up to the camera , and they serve just as well . |