Example sentences of "he just [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 His kiss to her forehead , she rather felt , gave her leave to show him just how unafraid of him she was .
2 Brian is , because we 've been out a couple of times and he does , I mean if we go out he 'll smoke then and then he just normally stops .
3 But we tell him , long , long time and he just well said well yeah , yeah !
4 He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words .
5 No he just just come and talk to you .
6 had to say , he just just said yes , yes , all afternoon .
7 I 'd got these figures down , but I had n't really got anything against them , he just quickly went through the percentages so yes .
8 He just about takes the biscuit .
9 When Hughie was picked as the person to head the project he just about had his suitcases packed for Sarawak .
10 I could n't believe that he just about had the audacity to phone this guy up .
11 He just about gets away with it as a teenager in long shot and make-up , but mostly he is heard ( putting on a ‘ young ’ voice ) and not seen .
12 Steve Kerton is one of the few professional drivers on the circuit … he just about survives on sponsorship … you see there are no big bucks in this sport … no national glory … take Kerton he 's to powerboating what Mansell is to motor racing … well in name only …
13 And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’
14 He just about owns poor Daniele ever since that business with the drugs , not to mention those photographs he has of Silvio … ’
15 his driveway that he put up and er he just about misses where the tree was , but he 's chopped all the tree down so he can have his grass , I du n no , well even if it meant just supporting the piece of something above his car so he do n't get any sap on it or ought
16 Oh , so he just like built did he ?
17 Yeah and when she got up to leave he just like patted her on the bum kind of thing and Jess saw it and Jess thought oh he 's trying to make me jealous
18 He just quietly died one day — about three years ago .
19 But he 's , he just really has to get in touch with one of them and tell them the prices .
20 He wo n't sleep during the day and he just never gets worn out .
21 He just never lets on that he 's done any fitness work ’ , says one .
22 And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private .
23 ‘ No , he wasn't. — He just never intended marring her , that 's all .
24 Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ?
25 If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor .
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