Example sentences of "just [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , I think that the painters , just because they needed to work in studios , may have been the least prominent members of this society . |
| 2 | Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there . |
| 3 | She says it 's all happened just because she chose to marry an RAF serviceman . |
| 4 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 5 | But they were still there , she realised , all those doubts … nothing had changed , just because she happened to have ricocheted from Mortimer 's clutches into Guy 's arms this afternoon , just because Guy Sterne 's physical chemistry created a minor explosion when it mingled with hers … |
| 6 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're about as grown up as … as Just William , with all this leering , these smutty innuendoes , just because you happened to see me with no clothes on ! ’ |
| 9 | Oh no , it was just because I went to talk to my manager about it before I went and I went through my diary with him and everything . |
| 10 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 11 | Just before she left to go there , Eliot called her into his office to say he had Shildon on the telephone from a callbox . |
| 12 | After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down . |
| 13 | I found out who they are just before I left to see you . |
| 14 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |
| 15 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
| 16 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 18 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 19 | She forced it up and down , just as they seemed to do in the movies . |
| 20 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 21 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 22 | The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting . |
| 23 | Just as you loved to push the piled live hedge-boughs — |
| 24 | It had to go south of the Slieve Bloom mountains , on the southern rim of the central depression , just as it had to go north of the Ballyhoura mountains , seventy miles farther to the southwest . |
| 25 | Just as it began to break we burst through to the other side and we were safe into smoother water . |
| 26 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 27 | The bourgeoisie as a class found enormous difficulty in combining getting and spending in a morally satisfactory manner , just as it failed to solve the equivalent material problem , how to secure a succession of equally dynamic and capable businessmen within the same family , a fact which increased the role of daughters , who could introduce new blood into the business complex . |
| 28 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 29 | Then , just as I began to fall , |
| 30 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |