Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 2 | Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it . |
| 3 | ‘ That new fuel blend of yours has just ensured that I 've had the most embarrassing drive of my life ! |
| 4 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 5 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 6 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 7 | Rosemary Reynolds ( Mrs Wolfson ) , a social worker , writes : ‘ My career has evolved through work with children and families , adoption and fostering , to my current work as a Guardian ad litem ’ , and she has just obtained a Diploma in Child Protection from London University . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware that she has just scored a marvellous bull 's eye ? |
| 9 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 10 | She has just written a prayer letter and I quote from it . |
| 11 | She is reading a letter she has just written to her parents . ] |
| 12 | She has just written her first screenplay , an adaptation of Jane Austen 's Sense And Sensibility . |
| 13 | ‘ My sister , now married , still lives there ; she has just written inviting herself to town for the Yuletide season . |
| 14 | Her recent television credits include leads in the series Buccaneer , The Professionals , The Consultant , Into the Labyrinth , Lytton 's Diary , Magnum , Seagull Island , and her film credits include The First Great Train Robbery , The Bitch , Morecambe and Wise 's Night Train to Murder , Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again , Universal City , After Darkness , and she has just completed Salome , playing Herodias . |
| 15 | She has just completed a year in the Gwelo Teacher 's Training College . |
| 16 | She has just completed a film shoot in France , with French dialogue ( ‘ I drove my family mad learning it ’ ) , and wants British audiences to see it . |
| 17 | She will be accompanied on the year-long exercise by colleagues from Bristol University , where she has just completed her final examination for a zoology degree . |
| 18 | I can feel it turn , too , as Millie realizes who she has just seen . |
| 19 | She has just given herself to him , and now she is regretting it . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’ |
| 21 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ But by the sound of what she has just said her mother was n't cut out for work , not the kind you 'll find in this quarter , except her last job . |
| 23 | After another brief pause , the speaker continues , using and to indicate that what she is going to say is connected to what she has just said . |
| 24 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 25 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 26 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 27 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 28 | She has just started at Luton Sixth Form College , in Bedfordshire , but she has picked a more varied menu than the traditional sixth form diet of three A-levels . |
| 29 | Although she spends most of her time in transit between one engagement and another , on arrival the destination often looks pretty like the place she has just left . |
| 30 | Erm , Chairman , w would the spokesman agree that the that the resources argument which she has just used is is completely fallacious and would she rather expect |