Example sentences of "just [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
2 | ‘ Take a sight test , ’ she advised tightly , and he flushed and apologised , which just made her more angry . |
3 | ‘ It was somewhat hard , I just made it somewhat harder . ’ |
4 | We just met him today . |
5 | They just asked me 'Where 's your money ? ' |
6 | Right , I 'll put some make up on Just read them straight out the book ca n't you ? |
7 | I just wiped it all over my . |
8 | He just got mine then ! |
9 | He took the hand-brake off and just moved it about thirty yards . |
10 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
11 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
12 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
13 | I just found it really hard , y'know . |
14 | And we just changed it again . |
15 | just visited it once . |
16 | erm , oh what did Pat tell me ? , she just told me yesterday |
17 | No until she just told me now . |
18 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
19 | that he just received them like , about half an hour before Mike rang up , so he said I 've got to get me secretary to type them out and then we , I 'll send them to you and we 've got to sign 'em , then what happens from there ? |
20 | But they just ignored me then . |
21 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
22 | Snow drove against him , but he just brushed it aside . |
23 | Just stuck it there to stop the door opening |
24 | But Hārkini just touched it gently all over , marvelling at the tiny , perfect form . |
25 | Cowley just watched him implacably , then walked to the phone as Bodie said , ‘ We searched Latowa 's place . |
26 | Yeah , I just rang her right ? and she just goes , oh I ca n't force him to do anything . |
27 | I just grabbed I just granted granted his wish and I |
28 | No they cut the skin and then they just pulled it apart |
29 | No they cut the skin and then they just pulled it apart . |
30 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |