Example sentences of "'d [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same roaring she 'd heard just before she and the cottage were swept away . |
| 2 | Yesterday , she 'd given just the cupboards she needed to use a superficial wipe-over . |
| 3 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 4 | Er had had such a record , I mean if he 'd smashed just er a lampshade or something like that it would n't have been so bad , but to actually get rid of a third of all the crockery in one fell sloop was er well it was fairly excessive . |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 6 | In so short a time she 'd forgotten just how big he was . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |
| 8 | She reckoned that she 'd considered just about every possible course . |
| 9 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 10 | And there was a lot of luck in life : some people would go to jail for badger-baiting ; but if they 'd baited just the foxes they 'd like as not be having sherry the next day with the Master of the Foxhounds . |
| 11 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 12 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 13 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 14 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 15 | If I 'd had just one chance I would n't be where I am today . |
| 16 | She was hard pressed not to glower at him — for a second there , he 'd sounded just like her father , and she was getting tired of being put under the interrogation spotlight like this . |
| 17 | And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . |
| 18 | On the second attempt it was just Jim Lowther and myself , but once again we 'd underestimated just how hard the upper part of the Cathedral was . |
| 19 | He 'd arrived just after Vespers to collect the message he had been told would be waiting for him . |
| 20 | When her mentor , Louis Leakey , sent out the young photographer Hugo Van Lawick to photograph the chimpanzees at Gombe , he wrote to Vanne that he 'd found just the husband for Jane . |
| 21 | When he 'd appeared just now , her whole body had burst into life . |
| 22 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 23 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 24 | She had thought she was just physically attracted to him , but the way her heart had leapt when he 'd returned just now was something else . |