Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 2 | They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch . |
| 3 | behind him , where they look just as snug as mummies . |
| 4 | Okay , so they 've just done their demo , but then are they gon na take demo |
| 5 | would n't believe me so they say just one more thing |
| 6 | They were well fed and well disposed to each other and they could hardly be blamed if they felt just a little smug . |
| 7 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 8 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 9 | Everyone else , including the screws and the pigs , they all talk as if they 've just learned how . |
| 10 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 11 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 12 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 13 | you know , sometimes people , sort of , look as if they 've just got out of bed ! |
| 14 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 15 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 16 | Some people think that childminding is an easy job , but if they spent just half a day doing the work she does I am sure they would soon be ready for bed ! |
| 17 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 20 | as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be |
| 21 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 22 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 23 | It was as if they had just met . |
| 24 | If they had just kept the stuff they removed , it would have saved us six months of work . ’ |
| 25 | They looked rather as if they had just raided an old clothes shop , few of the items of their clothing being a match , and for the most part , fitting only where they touched . |
| 26 | If they had just wanted to make money , there were far better ways . |
| 27 | His eyebrows looked permanently as if they had just shot up . |
| 28 | Then a great many of the bar 's occupants began to behave as if they had just remembered urgent appointments . |
| 29 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 30 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |