Example sentences of "just [verb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policeman 's dog ( breed unidentified in Flaubert 's version ) was n't carried away by a torrent ; it just drowned in deep water . |
| 2 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 3 | She smiled calmly back at him , her teeth snapping together when he just laughed in open disbelief . |
| 4 | Brisk afternoon winds do blow , exciting passages are possible , and there are many coves where you can anchor alone just to relax in perfect peace . |
| 5 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 6 | We just live in bottomless chaos and have to help each other , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 8 | ‘ Police blocked farmers from coming inside and they just stood in front shouting and calling messages over a loud hailer . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I think anyone who pretends otherwise is just indulging in macho posturing . |
| 10 | If Jack had just returned in pristine health from a month at a health farm he might still have had trouble in coping with two of his partners . |