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
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