Example sentences of "[subord] she [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 | Cos she 's just given up her her er any er , possibly ? |
| 4 | can you hang on to Rebecca cos she 's just pulled this off . |
| 5 | I want to reach out and touch her , like she 's just been bereaved . |
| 6 | The landlady looks like she 's just been told she 'll stay ugly for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | She even dabs at her own dribble ; daintily she does it , like she 's just finished dinner . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | because she 's just not got the time |
| 16 | Her brown eyes creased with amusement , Feargal 's mother explained , ‘ Because she 's just had twins . ’ |
| 17 | And if Jane could babysit because her mum ca n't because she 's just come out of hospital . |
| 18 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 19 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |
| 20 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 21 | Yeah , 'cos she 's just altered it . |
| 22 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 23 | The impression given by political commentators is that it is Mrs Thatcher who controls inner city expenditure — as she controls just about every item of government spending . |