Example sentences of "just [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in second-half Wanderers raised their game and at the end of the day they just failed to get a point . |
| 2 | the door is locked from the inside , but you just got to pull the cable and it overrides the lock dun n it ? |
| 3 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 4 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 5 | It just seemed to form the basis of how it was going to be . |
| 6 | You … well , you just seemed to catch the rough edge of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I just came to find a book … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 10 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 11 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 12 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |
| 13 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 14 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 15 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 16 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 17 | Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution . |
| 18 | I just happened to have a photograph . |
| 19 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 20 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 21 | Dean Acheson described Mossades as a " most conservative , rich , reactionary feudal-minded Persian , who also just happened to hate the British . " |
| 22 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 23 | I just walked to get the erm , the pi , to walk to get the paper |
| 24 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But she could n't stand to see us worry , could n't stand the expressions on our faces as we gathered round the bed , so she just decided to put a brave face on it . |
| 26 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 27 | Then I just started to laugh the woman next door and I fucking wet myself laughing |
| 28 | Just started to eat the fig roll and realized it was n't one of them . |
| 29 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 30 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |