Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] just [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | All a pretty far cry from 30 Northfield Road , Hull , where a nanny was a goat , a boarding school a threat , and a bright young thing something who 'd probably just passed their eleven plus . |
2 | Playing a team who did nt just believe the hype and went for it . |
3 | At Covent Garden , John was joined by Nerina and Heaton from the group of dancers he had worked with at Sadler 's Wells , and he quickly made new friends , including Ray Powell and , especially , Henry Legerton , an Australian who had also just joined the company after dancing for Massine in a play with ballets , based on the novel A Bullet in the Ballet . |
4 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |
5 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |
6 | A large gloomy bedroom had been the setting of it , hung with draperies , not the kind of thing you would expect a child to sleep in , but it was a little child that lay on the bed , white and still , the elderly man , evidently a doctor , who had seemingly just lifted a looking glass from the parted lips , turning to the young father and imparting the news of death , while the mother in a transport of grief clung to her husband , her head buried in his shoulder . |
7 | It was a comfortable victory and encouraging to see Macdonald , who had only just arrived in Australia to replace Stuart Reid , doing so well so soon . |
8 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |