Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 2 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
| 3 | Exercising his body slowly and with care in the practice court , Lucien was aware that , despite the cross words he 'd just had with Azmaveth , he was actually content in his new surroundings . |
| 4 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 5 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 6 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 7 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 8 | ‘ He scored a very good goal , which gave just cause for celebration . |
| 9 | They also no doubt discussed the album of songs by Sir Noel that Ken had just recorded for HMV . |
| 10 | England had just lost to Spain . |
| 11 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 12 | She had gone to give pregnant niece Dawn Morgan a lift to hospital — and Dawn had just gone into labour . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly , such a milestone was passed in December 1965 , when the recently appointed Monsignor Harris , who at that time had just gone to London as the Senior Roman Catholic Chaplain to the prison service , was invited by the holy see , to become an Auxiliary Bishop in his native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 14 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 15 | He and his wife had just gone to bed . |
| 16 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 17 | ‘ All that 's fine , ’ I said , though I was n't particularly interested in the vows of a child who had just gone to boarding school . |
| 18 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 19 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
| 20 | What Razumikhm had just said about Porfiry also disturbed him . |
| 21 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 22 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 23 | However , Aung San obtained the Defence portfolio ( previously supervised by the Governor ) and was Deputy Chairman of the Council : exactly as Nehru had just become in Wavell 's Council . |
| 24 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 25 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 26 | The BBC had just moved from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House . |
| 27 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 28 | They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins . |
| 29 | Conversely , if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded , what could explain this bizarre event ? |
| 30 | He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving , and was speaking entirely in the vocative . |