Example sentences of "[pers pn] had just [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 4 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had just about finished , when she began to make out footsteps approaching from deeper in the maze of drums . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Three years ago she had just recently left college , one of thousands of graduates looking for a job . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Fortunately we had just about recovered in time for the practical session . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was n't that she had n't tried to form relationships , but somehow they had just never amounted to anything significant . |
| 14 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 15 | In re-examining the slides McDade came across a colony he had just not seen previously . |
| 16 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 17 | The pair of them had just quietly fossilised together . |