Example sentences of "they just [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jim Courier and Andre Agassi roomed together at Nick Bolletieri 's tennis academy in Florida , one of them just had to leave the door ajar . |
| 2 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 3 | However , in second-half Wanderers raised their game and at the end of the day they just failed to get a point . |
| 4 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 5 | So many of that team got well over 10 years service that they just had to join the queue . |
| 6 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 7 | I 'd like to think it was my body they were after , but I suspect they just wanted to destroy the shirt . |
| 8 | The British government did n't seem to have a coherent policy for dealing with the hostage situation , they just wanted to teach the kidnappers a lesson . |
| 9 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 10 | They just stood watching a fireworks display across the bridge at the Expo . |