Example sentences of "just [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the door is locked from the inside , but you just got to pull the cable and it overrides the lock dun n it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I just tried to do the best I could . |
| 4 | It just seemed to form the basis of how it was going to be . |
| 5 | You … well , you just seemed to catch the rough edge of it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There must have been about 30 pairs in the drawer but I just happened to pick the one with the money . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 10 | Dean Acheson described Mossades as a " most conservative , rich , reactionary feudal-minded Persian , who also just happened to hate the British . " |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I just walked to get the erm , the pi , to walk to get the paper |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Then I just started to laugh the woman next door and I fucking wet myself laughing |
| 16 | Just started to eat the fig roll and realized it was n't one of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 19 | She was not one for showing off , she just liked to do the washing up and be there and look after everybody . |
| 20 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 21 | He shook his head , but she found the delicious-looking cakes too irresistible , and just had to sample the gooiest-looking one of all . |
| 22 | When Jim Courier and Andre Agassi roomed together at Nick Bolletieri 's tennis academy in Florida , one of them just had to leave the door ajar . |
| 23 | So many of that team got well over 10 years service that they just had to join the queue . |
| 24 | Whenever a new manager was brought in to take charge of them , they refused to co-operate : in the end we just had to take the porters on . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I just had to turn the telly over . |
| 26 | and the skin you just had to press the skin and , and the oh it was all , you know you could just |
| 27 | ‘ You just had to find the right path , did n't you , my lass . |
| 28 | Was there ever any time when you just had to accept the fact that the hay would have to be carried in wet ? |
| 29 | He just had to get the Shah 's butt outta there . " |
| 30 | Both Ken and Hugh Paddick just had to feel the same way . |