Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to just FIT IN . ’ |
| 2 | Her worries and cares oddly seemed to just desert her . |
| 3 | But you were saying about er Australia and that I I think at that particular time more so than now whatever was happening in the British pop scene seemed to just happen all over the world you know . |
| 4 | She glanced at the road ahead , a road that seemed to just shoot upwards at a terrifying angle . |
| 5 | Luke , nicknamed Lucky after a string of mishaps , escaped with just grazes — and a tyre mark up his back . |
| 6 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 7 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 8 | You never thought of just taking the day off ? |
| 9 | Dot knew from just looking at him that he was no hero , no villain either . |
| 10 | Angela just said to just alter it on the P forty five , but |
| 11 | This stupid Lee at the moment for his exam , he 's meant to have done it by Christmas and he has n't done it for C D T , and he , they had to just choose something erm to make that actually sort of works , so Lee could n't , I mean they did crane 's and things like that and he could n't , the thing he came up with and he 's teacher was a , a go erm , what was it Dave , a goalie stand in his goal |
| 12 | So as the shop , you see , did n't pay the wages , they had to just pay it on the things that were done . |
| 13 | On the other page yeah it had a picture of like this chart yeah and it had the picture of a grapefruit in all this sharing , you had to just draw that . |
| 14 | ‘ Women had to just grin and bear their illness , ’ said Joan . |
| 15 | If I had to just put put it out and nothing else I would n't mind . |
| 16 | But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ? |
| 17 | Erm , by having know that the land grows the weeds and no pesticides not disturbed , there 's no shooting , they 're never shot around here , the birds can come in sheltered , you know , they , they 're just like a little nature reserve , protected area , game park you know , nothing shot at just left and er they like it obviously , I mean it 's like anything once it learns that er it 's gon na be left alone it comes again and again . |
| 18 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 19 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 20 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |