Example sentences of "just [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prison just made me worse ; it did nowt else . |
| 2 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 3 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |
| 4 | Just made it worse . |
| 5 | But that just made it worse . |
| 6 | Oh yeah , they just condensed it all down you see technology erm battery power then erm |
| 7 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
| 8 | You know , I mean we just got them cheap erm lampshades from now on er cos it 's not worth it cos th the expensive ones are just getting damaged all the time . |
| 9 | I just got it last year . |
| 10 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 11 | Moodie squeaked in support whilst Ruthven just dismissed them all with one scathing look . |
| 12 | And it just stopped me dead in my tracks . |
| 13 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 14 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 15 | ‘ His voice just triggered it all off , I knew it was the beginning of something ’ said Heather , of Aberdeen Road , Darlington . |
| 16 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 17 | It was rather grubby so we just painted it all white and , as I suspected , David 's imagination , after it was painted , came into heavy play . |
| 18 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 19 | no , no cos she just told me this morning you were going to see her work in the morning . |
| 20 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 21 | But then I just told you that . |
| 22 | ‘ I just told you that , Charles . |
| 23 | I just imagined you all wrongly . ’ |
| 24 | Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that . |
| 25 | Just joined us this evening from England . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I just threw them all in the bin , ’ remembers Judith , 27 , from Cambridge . |
| 27 | just heard it this week , |
| 28 | Yeah , I just dumped it all . |
| 29 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 30 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |