Example sentences of "just [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 2 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 3 | So the Queen and I just made it before the deluge ! |
| 4 | Have you had a copy of , dare I say it , the tabulation which was produced by the panel , which summarized the various er submissions , and if I just read them to you . |
| 5 | Do n't sit and just read it over your desk . |
| 6 | I du n no , I just read it in the book saying what a blow job is . |
| 7 | ‘ But I reckon they just mistook it for a runway . |
| 8 | That was Wattling 's flannel , and Pickerage knew he just chucked it at his face every night . ’ |
| 9 | He turned , took a plate of food from the hall table and offered it , making sure his hand just grazed hers in the passing . |
| 10 | But it just got me into a lot of fights , that 's all . |
| 11 | No , they just got him for beating somebody . |
| 12 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 13 | I just got him in here and then he got into , er the glazier . |
| 14 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 15 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 16 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 17 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 18 | They just stopped him from choking the life out of bobby Carter because he had said everybody was for the war : if we did n't show them Russians what was what , who would ? |
| 19 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 20 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 21 | I just found it on three |
| 22 | We just found it by chance . |
| 23 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 24 | Er I du n no , I just found it in one of my |
| 25 | I just mentioned it in passing and let the conversation carried on about something else so I , I do n't know whether |
| 26 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 27 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 28 | Just beat me to it . |
| 29 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 30 | For the sound of his voice just filled me with dread |