Example sentences of "[noun] just [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words just came out without my planning to say them . |
| 2 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 3 | Needless to say , these mega-rich popsters just swan around in wellies every other weekend for the benefit of the colour supplements ‘ Day In The Life ’ features and leave all the actual farming to peasants who get up at dawn and get paid in potatoes . |
| 4 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 5 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 6 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 8 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 9 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 10 | ‘ The last album just ran out of fun along the way . |
| 11 | Flames and smoke from nearby chestnut-sellers and the bare-chested fire-eaters flickered and drifted into the dark grey sky , and Meredith just hung on to Lucenzo , lost for words , overwhelmed by the volume of sound , the bustle , the glamour , as they walked along beneath the arched walkway of the Procuratie Nuove . |
| 12 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 13 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 14 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 15 | Vauxhall just held on to second spot ahead of Rover with 24,376 sales to Rover 's 23,251 . |
| 16 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 17 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd have thought so , ’ he said , and Maureen went on , ‘ He did n't remember anything after falling asleep but they got married right away and Beryl just lay around like an invalid until the baby was born six months later . ’ |
| 19 | If you are losing patience just get out for a walk . |
| 20 | Ehm just to get back about the point the studio being dark erm it 's just as a suggestion has anybody thought of actually running say a week 's worth of drama courses with er an artist in residence or something like that coming in to do work shops . |
| 21 | Two chaps just walked down through there oh I suppose they were upper fortyish they could have been older |
| 22 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 23 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 24 | Supermodels such as Linda Evangelista — used to commanding at least £10,000 just to get out of bed — Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer , who have dominated the world of glamour for so long , will face tough competition as designer labels clamour to sign up actresses Michelle Pfeiffer , Geena Davis and Kim Basinger . |
| 25 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 26 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 27 | Of Shakespeare he says , ‘ Being a great poet the lines just tumbled out of him , and , like the whore an artist sometimes is , he distributes his favours to undeserving characters . |
| 28 | If , if the Americans had all the power , why did Woodrow Wilson just sell out to the Allies ? |
| 29 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
| 30 | If you live alone and are able to get out , there are many voluntary organisations just crying out for helpers . |