Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] just " in BNC.

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1 The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground .
2 Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you .
3 He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again .
4 " Where — " He checked himself just in time .
5 He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes .
6 And he said , today he phoned me just as I was going out and I did n't really sort of stop and talk to him very long .
7 Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles .
8 just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then
9 Correctly surmising that theirs was the room with the broken bolt hanging from the door , he entered it just as I was catching up with him .
10 He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club .
11 I was , he told me just what I wanted to hear , ‘ that watches of this make were issued to RAF navigators ’ .
12 So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper .
13 A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see .
14 He allowed them just enough milk to supplement the grass they were learning to eat and then pushed them aside , replacing their mouths on the teats with his fingers , squeezing the milk in short squirts into a frothing bowl on the ground below .
15 But he kissed her just the same .
16 There 's no record for Chris Griffiths — but he enjoyed it just the same .
17 I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her .
18 He rang me just before a show and said the words : ‘ Well , I intend to bring the show to New York .
19 He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets .
20 Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ .
21 He reached her just as she made an attempt to stand , and caught hold of her upper arms .
22 Deep in his heart he knew he just did n't have the nerve to give up everything — his home , his family , his fortune — to return to a country he thought he loved .
23 He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again .
24 He did it just in time .
25 he said they just do .
26 His wife came in and banged the door and he was furious because it made the china rattle ; he said she just did n't understand . ’
27 I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed .
28 He said I just speak to him he said when I see him and they 're nice to me and I 'm nice to them .
29 He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it !
30 Are you sure you 're alright , he said I just said oh .
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