Example sentences of "just [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 2 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 3 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 4 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 5 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 6 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 7 | I suppose she 's just done one for you , no wonder you ca n't look me in the face . ’ |
| 8 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 9 | you 've just done it for there . |
| 10 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 11 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 12 | Blanche had just asked him for permission to approach the secret services formally and inspect their files on Graham Mills . |
| 13 | Well yeah , and yes they 've just asked them for forty grand more have n't they ? |
| 14 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 15 | You 've just confirmed it for me . ’ |
| 16 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 17 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 18 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |