Example sentences of "she [vb past] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment , she was n't sure of what she 'd just said . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , that answers quite a lot , ’ Lucy said , drawing a deep breath to indicate she 'd just seen the light . |
| 3 | She 'd just gone down there to look for any good-natured sucker . |
| 4 | That night in bed , not able to sleep , she remembered she 'd once knocked on Miss Malabedeely 's door and when Miss Malabedeely had n't answered she 'd just gone in . |
| 5 | Kate stared back at him , hardly daring to believe what she 'd just heard . |
| 6 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 7 | She 'd just lent me her umbrella , ’ laughed Breeze . |
| 8 | She hated to think of the sight she 'd just presented , sprawling inelegantly , stark naked on the bed … |
| 9 | She 'd just ridden Spooked like her old self and the horse had run above himself , finishing third in a field of twenty . |
| 10 | She felt as if she 'd just escaped a raging tornado , flung to one side just in time . |
| 11 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 12 | Her heart raced like a riptide ; her ears rang and lights fizzed at the back of her eyes as if she 'd just dived deep into the bosom of Ocean . |
| 13 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 14 | Whatever he was up to , whatever his intentions towards her , at least she 'd just discovered something about her feelings towards him . |
| 15 | She could hardly believe what she 'd just done . |
| 16 | She 'd never behaved in her life as she 'd just done , and she could n't understand or justify her reactions . |
| 17 | Perhaps she 'd just imagined it , like she 'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls . |
| 18 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 19 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 20 | The heroine 's image faced fearful odds in the cube but she 'd make it and the girl would think she 'd just fallen asleep . |
| 21 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 22 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 23 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 24 | And she 'd just turned eighteen . |
| 25 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 26 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 27 | Jack , still kneeling beside Bunty and holding her hand to his cheek , said , ‘ She 'd just left … |
| 28 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 29 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 30 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |