Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 's not , she 's not well so she 's just come again . |
| 3 | But we 're pretty tight anyway , so it 's just made us closer . ’ |
| 4 | Cos she 's just given up her her er any er , possibly ? |
| 5 | can you hang on to Rebecca cos she 's just pulled this off . |
| 6 | I want to reach out and touch her , like she 's just been bereaved . |
| 7 | The landlady looks like she 's just been told she 'll stay ugly for the rest of her life . |
| 8 | She even dabs at her own dribble ; daintily she does it , like she 's just finished dinner . |
| 9 | A teenage girl gets on the bus , then , as if she 's just remembered , takes out a comic story magazine and holds it out of the window . |
| 10 | It is unquestionably a pleasure to see Paul Scofield wrap his voice round a sentence ; Vanessa Redgrave laugh as if she 's just been caught off guard ; and Daniel Massey inflect his expression just so , to suggest a man on the cusp between debonair and disintegrating . |
| 11 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |
| 12 | But what if she 's just had a tiny indiscretion , a few drinks with a work colleague that went too far , followed by tears and remorse and ‘ I swear to you it 'll never happen again , I love only you , darling ’ ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Cameron , ’ he says , like he 's just come to some big decision , and sucks air through his teeth , ‘ you know I do n't think it 's you . ’ |
| 17 | Tony does n't expect his navvy to turn many heads , but if it makes just one or two commuters appreciate the courage and dedication of the men who made the Chiltern Line , the effort was worth it . |
| 18 | We 'll pick her up when she goes for lunch — and we 've got something to say , now , even if it 's just Run for the hills , lady . ’ |
| 19 | If it 's just left like that I shall just take the whole lot and dump it in the dustbin ! |
| 20 | What about , if it 's just got a and a it ? |
| 21 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 22 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 23 | If it has just been created using option 2.1.1 — Create DC , it should now be updated using option 2.1.2 — Update DC and then submitted for assessment using option 2.1.3 , whereupon no further changes will be possible . |
| 24 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 25 | If it finds just one such context , then it forms a new OR symbol Y with productions |
| 26 | Yeah , and if he becomes just an auto run it could just knock him back a bit , one of the crowd , you know , just another one |
| 27 | He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had . |
| 28 | So it sounds as if he 's just renewed it after a while . |
| 29 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 30 | A might still suspect B of having stolen something from him elsewhere ( e.g. if he has just discovered that a bunch of keys is missing from the hall table ) . |