Example sentences of "just [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 2 | And other people say he just lived quietly in the town after learning his lesson . |
| 3 | For those first few fraught seconds she just gazed dumbly at him . |
| 4 | ‘ Being 40 just crept up on me , ’ says Clarissa . |
| 5 | It just crept up on me . |
| 6 | He just plunged straight into the crowd and started chatting with people . |
| 7 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 8 | When Leach opened that cupboard it just tumbled out on the floor . ’ |
| 9 | Of Shakespeare he says , ‘ Being a great poet the lines just tumbled out of him , and , like the whore an artist sometimes is , he distributes his favours to undeserving characters . |
| 10 | I mean if anybody else just got up on the stage like he does and kicks his leg , kick like their leg like er like that they 'd boo him off ! |
| 11 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 12 | Apart from asking me if it might be ‘ right lip ’ or ‘ left edge ’ he just got on with it himself . |
| 13 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 14 | Colin , from Middlesbrough , said : ‘ I just got on with it . ’ |
| 15 | As regards to homework , I just got on with it myself or did n't do it at all . ’ |
| 16 | I just got on with it . ’ |
| 17 | He just got on with expansion . ’ |
| 18 | And I gave up er nagging him , I just got on with it myself . |
| 19 | They just got on with whatever task was to hand . |
| 20 | Wetherall just got on with it and won all the important headers . |
| 21 | They just got on with the job . |
| 22 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 23 | Who you just got on with . |
| 24 | They just got away with more in 1991–2 than they did in 1992–3 . |
| 25 | The Microprocessor Report claims Motorola Inc , which just got together with SunSoft Inc to put Solaris on the PowerPC , will likely pursue a Microsoft Corp Windows NT port to attract other customers besides those it 's already got . |
| 26 | Well , we just got out into the hallway where all these mothers were standing round and |
| 27 | It just got out of hand . ’ |
| 28 | And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on . |
| 29 | I had n't really sorted anything out socially or whatever and so I just got back into it . |
| 30 | I thought you only just got back from you homeymoon … ’ |