Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But regionalism in this ‘ everything and nothing ’ sense is not just a territorial dimension to central policy-making ; like planning , regionalism could not he regarded as just one policy among many but rather , in principle , as meta-policy , the implicit or explicit framework for other interventionist policies . |
| 2 | They was taken before , I was five , across , we move , he moved here just across the , across the road , not far only just matter going over from one side to the other and I was five there , so now I 'm sixty seven now and that before then , you see , before I was born . |
| 3 | He 'd away just at the start of the war . |
| 4 | Went on and on at this young lad who 'd spoken who thumped him he 'd apparently just one punch , I do n't know but but anyway all the charges have been dropped against this lad now so |
| 5 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 6 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 7 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 8 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I think he 'd only just realised himself . |
| 10 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 11 | So my father did n't know what to do , because he 'd only just started on his own , so he was tight for money as well was n't he . |
| 12 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 13 | He came here just over five years ago , before Hugo was killed , and has stayed on . ’ |
| 14 | His face went red , and he seemed only just able to stop himself hitting me . |
| 15 | Joe had been at the pub that evening , and when he arrived home just before ten , he found her on the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 17 | By what I 've reckoned , he took enough just to knock him out . |
| 18 | and went straight through the garden and all the the time and all that he 'd spent and he went straight just through the garden and knocked her . |
| 19 | But I think he did probably just , because when I got up er when I co , you see when I come down the stairs I can see through that window look |
| 20 | He had evidently just eaten a meal , for the remains of it lay in a red handkerchief open on the ground . |
| 21 | ( Actually , it was a triple because he had also just won the Canadian Open a few days before . ) |
| 22 | If anything , he had only just got wound up . |
| 23 | He concentrated the Sandinista troops along the Honduran frontier ; offered to end arms imports until after the election ; gave assurances of safe conduct to returning rebels ; and then said he was ready to reinstate the ceasefire he had only just abrogated . |
| 24 | He had only just arrived , had n't even booked in . |
| 25 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 26 | He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak . |
| 27 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 28 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 29 | He had only just gone over there . |
| 30 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |