Example sentences of "'s just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Prendergast 's just popped out , ’ said his secretary . |
| 2 | She 's just popped up to get a book for some homework . |
| 3 | ‘ Binky 's just popped downstairs , ’ she said bravely . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's just popped out to buy a paper — ’ |
| 5 | He 's just popped out for supplies . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 7 | May 's just phoned . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's just phoned , actually , ’ Leith butted in . |
| 9 | I have n't got much done , I 've got all the cups and things washed , but oh Catherine 's just phoned me |
| 10 | They said that , he 's just phoned the firm . |
| 11 | Er , mum 's just phoned erm he 's died , died erm Yeah . |
| 12 | France is quite a nice country it 's just polluted by frenchmen that 's the only trouble . |
| 13 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 14 | Ye yes he 's just retired . |
| 15 | Daddy sits a lot , doing nothing and muttering to himself and Mummy 's just retreated — she never starts a conversation , or asks a question , or — You 'd think they 'd be over-anxious about me , their one remaining child and perhaps they are , but they have miserable ways of showing it . |
| 16 | He , he 's got now , he just cuts from and he 's just missed the tree . |
| 17 | ‘ Peter 's just split up with his partner . |
| 18 | It — it hurts , being around someone who 's just killed someone … or hurt them . |
| 19 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 20 | He 's just broken the news to parents in a letter to each family . |
| 21 | Oh my tie 's just broken . |
| 22 | Cath 's just tested it , she said it works . |
| 23 | Sarah 's just lost 'er husband , and she can stay as long as she likes . |
| 24 | The weatherman 's just lost it off the long-range radar screen . |
| 25 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 26 | She said to me , she said , my mum and , my dad 's just lost his so |
| 27 | ‘ The neighbour 's just fallen into his barbecue ! ’ |
| 28 | ooh she 's just fallen over |
| 29 | Your shoe 's just fallen off Barry ! |
| 30 | He 's just fallen down the stairs ! |