Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I met him he 'd just done his shopping for two weeks . |
| 2 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 3 | Thacker stuck out a hand , then realized it was wet — he 'd just wiped his mouth with the back of it . |
| 4 | He 'd just sold his jukebox so we had the back seat piled up with records from it . |
| 5 | He 'd just passed his test . |
| 6 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 7 | I 'd just bought her record ‘ It Cuts Both Ways ’ . |
| 8 | I ca n't think in the art , in the art thing cos I like to I 'd just finished my coffee as well and |
| 9 | ‘ No , no , laddie , I am well served , I that thought just to serve my man ! |
| 10 | Mrs Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 11 | Lynn Dart , the mother of murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart , had just completed her evidence in the trial of Michael Sams at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday . |
| 12 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 13 | The guest of honour was Lord Denning , who had just completed his report into the Profumo scandal of that year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The group had just recorded their part in a new Central series which starts on Wednesday . |
| 16 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 17 | The first part of the remark was tautologous ( show me a peaceful terrorist ) ; and the second was untrue : Gerry Adams had just lost his West Belfast constituency . |
| 18 | He had just lost his wife ; his children were now grown up . |
| 19 | She gave her friend a significant glance and then clamped her lips together , in a parody of someone who was not going to say whatever it was that had just crossed her mind . |
| 20 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 21 | ( … his mother had just kissed his father who was very dirty . ) |
| 22 | If you had just answered my question before you answered with another question . |
| 23 | Wendy Vickerman , 28 , had just visited her mother in the Alderwood sheltered housing block in Newham Grange , Middlesbrough when she was confronted by three bike-riding youths . |
| 24 | MARIO JOHNSON had just seen his friend and New York Jets team-mate Denis Byrd carried from the field , his neck broken , his young body paralysed . |
| 25 | Robert Bolt , the eminent playwright who had produced A Man For All Seasons and had just seen his screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia completed , wanted Ken for a Puck-like part for his forthcoming play , Gentle Jack . |
| 26 | She had just given her body — so long and so carefully guarded — for a length of brown satin . |
| 27 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 28 | Myra Breckenridge , the sizzling exposure of sex in Hollywood by Gore Vidal had just made its appearance in London , along with Norman Mailer 's The Armies of the Night , about the invasion of the White House the previous October of pacifists and hippies protesting at the war . |
| 29 | Great clawmarks down one cheek had just missed his eye . |
| 30 | He had just moved his Queen and two grand masters , providing a commentary for spectators , declared that Byrne had a won game . |