Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] just [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 2 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 3 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 5 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 6 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 7 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 8 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 9 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 10 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 11 | And she 'd just totally forgotten ! |
| 12 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 13 | Er she 'd just recently died an old lady named Mrs , lived at the first house . |
| 14 | ‘ She called just now to say someone has collapsed outside the medical centre . ’ |
| 15 | Accomplished compere that she is , she knew just when to stick in the ‘ but seriously , folks ’ bit . |
| 16 | Her car had broken down , she had as good as lied to her parents , and had somehow managed to offend the man whom her sister would bend over backwards not to offend — and now she had just practically told Cara , when there was n't the remotest chance of it happening , that the damnable interview was in the bag . |
| 17 | She had just about finished , when she began to make out footsteps approaching from deeper in the maze of drums . |
| 18 | The crossing to Ostend was uneventful , with Fabia , when not hoping with all she had that everything would be all right with Barney , trying to come to terms with the fact that , despite having an innate aversion to lies and deception , she had just about agreed to practise both . |
| 19 | Three years ago she had just recently left college , one of thousands of graduates looking for a job . |
| 20 | The reader may have found those remarks somewhat quizzical , for I pointed out that while philosophers of education have advocated ‘ autonomy ’ as an outcome for the educator to aim at , there seemed something quirky about describing , say , a graduate who had just successfully completed a course as autonomous . |
| 21 | Preston shrugged , as one did who had just single-handedly dispatched a Beast who Rode the Underground . |
| 22 | ‘ Well today you had just better fix it so there wo n't be any damage , ’ she said , and then speared him with a saccharin smile . |
| 23 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 24 | Fortunately we had just about recovered in time for the practical session . |
| 25 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
| 26 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 27 | Exiting from the outer gates , Satan saw another man-thing — in this case the tall figure of Nate Springfield — and swerved left to lead his decimated pack away from any further fire-and-thunder attacks , such as they had just painfully experienced . |
| 28 | It was n't that she had n't tried to form relationships , but somehow they had just never amounted to anything significant . |
| 29 | After a few seconds , he moved just enough to let one eye and a frowning eyebrow show . |
| 30 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |