Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 2 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 3 | as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be |
| 4 | very pale , if you saw somebody in a hospital bed who 'd just suffered shock , they 'd be the same colour as the sheet they 're lying on their face is absolutely white , okay , very , very pale , very cold and very clammy , now supposing the doctor asks you why are they cold and clammy ? |
| 5 | ‘ Barratt was there , ’ says Howard , ‘ making sure everyone knew he 'd just had lunch with God . ’ |
| 6 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 7 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 8 | I 'd just left school . |
| 9 | She 'd just started school . |
| 10 | At the time he 'd just started City Lights , a new shop in Covent Garden . |
| 11 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 12 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 14 | Beware the unrealistic high offer submitted just to ensure passage to phase II . |
| 15 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 16 | He had just completed work on a new two-and-three-quarter-ounce trout-rod , and had asked his brother , John , to try it out . |
| 17 | An R-1830 Twin Wasp for ‘ nostalgia ’ operator Classic Air of Switzerland had just completed tear-down during our visit . |
| 18 | ‘ First Confession had just take place . |
| 19 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 20 | Yes , the Compus course was really a a further work orientation course , for people who had just left school . |
| 21 | Jonathan , 27 , who married just two months ago , had just met brother Christopher , 30 , after he flew in from Italy . |
| 22 | I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point . |
| 23 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 24 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 25 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 26 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 27 | When the Dauphine had just given birth ( in front of numerous ambassadors , foreign princes and courtiers ) , a sheep was skinned alive in her bedroom so that the exhausted mother could be wrapped in its fleece . |
| 28 | How her mother had just given birth to another child , her fifth , this time a boy . |
| 29 | I thought you had just become part of her growing up and learning about life . |
| 30 | He was blown out of the water on 17 January 1964 by Iain Macleod [ q.v. ] , who had just become editor of the Spectator , in one of the most famous and devastating articles that has ever appeared in that journal . |