Example sentences of "just [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up .
2 Francis just made a tragi-comic face and said :
3 EMC is said to have plans of its own to bring out a new generation of Symmetrix , and is certainly not daunted by the hot breath of competition — it just announced a two-for-one stock split to be effected via a scrip dividend .
4 I just got a long continuance tone .
5 Cos we just got a real fright when we could n't stop the water pouring out .
6 I rang up the ticket office but just got a recorded message .
7 We just got a little boy here called Wayne and he do n't know what he 's fucking talking about .
8 They all just got a little bit wet . ’
9 Just got a little bit by the
10 Yeah , she 'd got a boyfriend and , with her school work as well , like she 's doing her A levels now and she just got a little bit , you know , because it is a big you know you 've got to be dedicated have n't you ?
11 They just got a wooden notice saying LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT .
12 My mother , she just entered a mysterious decline .
13 Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw .
14 It just seemed a total waste of time to bother redecorating it — the only solution seemed to be removing the chimney , adding an extension , or both .
15 It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ?
16 As for the farmer 's own income increasing , it was found that larger farmers reap better financial benefits from converting more buildings , compared to smaller farmers who just received a one-off cash injection .
17 Victoria just stated a simple fact , and it effectively ended the conversation .
18 No , I just started a part-time job and my boyfriend 's , come and watch them and he 's helping me cleaning the house and everything 's clean when I come home .
19 They were out there , it just took a long time to find them .
20 However , the seeds had been sown in my mind — they just took a long time to grow !
21 He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment .
22 Yes , just a hunch feeling , they just kept a clean sheet in the last game , and I thought perhaps they might keep another one , but erm and scramble a goal — it was very late was n't it ?
23 I just felt a burning sensation on my cheek and the next thing there was just blood .
24 Dad , Jack and Charlie just wore a black armband each with their Sunday suits , and I was dressed in a white lace dress with a wide black sash of silk ribbon .
25 Few of them flying about coming along just the line of the hydro wire at the hydro wire and just saw a blue flash and get down .
26 I just saw a little bit of it over there
27 I just saw a little bit of snow
28 Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books !
29 again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself
30 Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit .
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