Example sentences of "[pers pn] just [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just heard Fagg shouting , ‘ How dare you , sir ? ’ and the Commander wailing something about old times . |
| 2 | I just asked Potter for leave . |
| 3 | Without that , I just felt self-dislike . ’ |
| 4 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 5 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 6 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 7 | " I just had time to think " Thank God it was n't my teeth " . " |
| 8 | I just had time to dive into the nearest ditch , dropping the bicycle on the road , before I heard another shower of bullets . |
| 9 | But it was too slow , or too stupid : I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away . |
| 10 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 11 | I just saw England , I was never in it . |
| 12 | Funnily enough , I just saw Mick ( Robinson , the Brian May lookalike ) the other day , and he has n't changed at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I just saw Guido , ’ she said , coming up to Ronni . |
| 14 | No I was , I just saw Food and Drink |
| 15 | ‘ I just told Marc a minute ago . |
| 16 | Well , I just told Ruth not to be a silly girl and got him off to Nurse . |
| 17 | ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more . |
| 18 | I do n't know what a calyx is , I just thought petal fitted in , I mean I do n't know . |
| 19 | Yes I 'm sure it probably did I just thought Paul , go to the corner of the front room Paul and take something for that . |
| 20 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 21 | Cos I just thought Lorna you know if Ca Carl wants to come |
| 22 | oh , is that what Mr said , I 'm not stopping you asking this witness at all , I do n't want , you mention the brochures and I do n't want to ask him questions , the kind I want to ask , er , with which they 're not asked by Counsel , I should n't ask at this stage anyway , but by all means ask Mr about it , I just thought Mr said , when I tried , asked him about it , very understandably , Mr the man , cos you are totally free to ask about it of course |
| 23 | I just took opportunities and worked at them . ’ |
| 24 | It 's , it 's Tom who 's doing it , I just wrote Tom and I thought you were in yesterday 's group , but you 're in today 's group so it ca n't be you , it 's Tom . |
| 25 | Erm well I just wrote Miriam and said , I saw your article in Green Week can you send me further details . |
| 26 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 27 | I just hoped things would get better . |
| 28 | And I just went Jesus ! ! |
| 29 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 30 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |