Example sentences of "[verb] just [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
2 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
3 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
4 | The short code would then be decompressed just before display to produce the appropriate number of blue pixels to represent the sky . |
5 | You 've just not got to put people through too many hoops that they do n't wan na go through . |
6 | I 've just about managed to forgive him . |
7 | And I 've just about managed to get staccato in the right hand . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ( Two of us ) have just simply had to find time to do it in our own time . |
10 | The rest of the tour have just about managed to laugh about it by now , but not Jasper . |