Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 2 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 4 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 5 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 6 | They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted . |
| 7 | He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home . |
| 8 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 9 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 10 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
| 11 | And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something |
| 12 | Probably , I do n't know actually it 's really weird it keeps going it went once and I was playing hockey , it was really embarrassing I 'd just played the ball |
| 13 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 14 | ‘ Well , that answers quite a lot , ’ Lucy said , drawing a deep breath to indicate she 'd just seen the light . |
| 15 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , as if he 'd just completed a mental calculation , ‘ that 's quite right . |
| 17 | He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon . |
| 18 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 19 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 20 | We 'd just totalled a couple of teenage boys . |
| 21 | It was reasonable enough , but I 'd just signed a new contract with the company . |
| 22 | Ronni stood and watched the empty doorway for a moment , feeling a little as though she 'd just encountered a whirlwind . |
| 23 | She was n't worried about her wardrobe in comparison to me having landed on the on the road , which I thought was extremely good considering that she I 'd just demolished a nice piece of her f er a piece of her furniture . |
| 24 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |
| 25 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd just had a stroke |
| 27 | She said it was all just paper talk because she 'd just had a gorgeous postcard from Mark but it gets to them , I can tell you . ’ |
| 28 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 29 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 30 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |