Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 2 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 3 | Tried she said just alter it on P forty five ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , that answers quite a lot , ’ Lucy said , drawing a deep breath to indicate she 'd just seen the light . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 6 | I did n't know he 'd just shot Mr. Banks . ’ |
| 7 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
| 8 | Finally , a protest from a woman who says she had just finished Helen Bullock 's ‘ oh-so-true ’ article when her husband came in and said : ’ ‘ There seems to be a bit of toast on the floor in the other room ’ . |
| 9 | That night in bed , not able to sleep , she remembered she 'd once knocked on Miss Malabedeely 's door and when Miss Malabedeely had n't answered she 'd just gone in . |
| 10 | When you walk into one of those cabins , you would swear you 'd just gone deaf . |
| 11 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 12 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 13 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 14 | If he had regretted his kiss the evening before , how on earth was he going to view what had just happened between them ? |
| 15 | The heroine 's image faced fearful odds in the cube but she 'd make it and the girl would think she 'd just fallen asleep . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyone would think you 'd just received a death sentence . |
| 17 | ‘ You would n't believe someone had just tried to kill him . |
| 18 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte estimated that Mrs McMullen had died at 6.30pm but it was at 9.45pm that McLean claimed she had just found the body . |
| 19 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 20 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 21 | I 'll never forget the sense of joy that came over our evening congregation when Edwin announced we had just exceeded our target of £200,000 . |
| 22 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 23 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 24 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 25 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 26 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 27 | We decided we had just got to stay put in Bromley and in Fulham . |
| 28 | It was clear from the note this couple loved their daughter very much — but it seems they had just reached the end of their tether . ’ |
| 29 | When Mrs Carlson went round she had a glass of something , excused herself from a chicken leg saying they had just eaten dinner . |
| 30 | He 'd as good as admitted he 'd gone off her sexually by saying he preferred just resting in her , motionless . |