Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived there just before I was born . |
| 2 | They waded ashore just below their lonely hut . |
| 3 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 4 | But it was very difficult for these for young , young couples with the er er men at the front and perhaps they 'd only just got married before the war and it was very hard lines on them . |
| 5 | What it was she could n't guess , but his enmity seemed deeper than it should have been , given that they 'd only just met . |
| 6 | The rest , as far as Airdrie were concerned , was the recipe a la MacDonald , though they went forward just enough to show that the incongruously exotic Justin Fashanu could be a real asset . |
| 7 | Leigh had looked likely winners when they went ahead just before the hour . |
| 8 | The Government have increased prescription charges 14 times , and they did so just this week by twice the rate of inflation . |
| 9 | They slipped away just before sun-up . |
| 10 | who would administer all the drugs etc , erm , they come in and they said right just take a sit Joy and you know make yourself comfortable , I said oh fine and I sat , sat in the chair said well I 'll sit with these for me dining room and I 'll have four for me bedroom and |
| 11 | Before the study began , few people knew about the dolphin , but the upsurge in public interest prompted many locals to claim that they were seeing more dolphins recently than ever before , whereas in fact they had probably just taken greater notice of something that had always been there . |
| 12 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 13 | They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them . |
| 14 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 15 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 16 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 17 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 18 | They had only just come . |
| 19 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 20 | Both Adie Smith and Jason Pratt phoned to say they had only just heard we have two games on Saturday . |
| 21 | As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes . |
| 22 | But advice workers in Middlesbrough said they had only just heard of the drug and had no reports of its presence in the county . |
| 23 | They had obviously just finished dancing , and just as obviously their next stop would be the nearest double bed . |
| 24 | They had all just pushed their way into the house , and crowded into the small sitting room . |
| 25 | They slept under just a blanket in the mouth of a cave while we needed hot water bottles in our sleeping bags . |