Example sentences of "[noun] just see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cichlids just seeing them as part of the overall decor would move them out of their way , often causing them to come apart making them useless . |
| 2 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 3 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 4 | In the few cases just seen where the to infinitive denotes an action , it also brings in the nuance of subsequence , of sudden movement from one instant to the next . |
| 5 | The starts of Flatliners ( 15 ) — including off-screen lovers Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland — find a way to die for a few minutes just to see what life is like ‘ on the other side ’ . |
| 6 | Go and look at paintings in art galleries just to see what effect the artist is trying to achieve . |
| 7 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 8 | The improvement has been tremendous , in fact I am more willing to pay the dreaded poll tax just to see this part of Darlington looking as nice . |
| 9 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 10 | I 've come all the way from Loch Lomond just to see you . |
| 11 | We even sent an invitation to Michael Swinton as a joke just to see what he 'd do , but it was hopelessly disappointing , he simply pretended he had n't had it — ’ |
| 12 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 13 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 14 | The distinction just seen with noun objects is also applicable to examples with the infinitive and will allow us to account for the distribution of to with cause and make . |
| 15 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 16 | They knew that a number of passengers had joined the cruise just to see St Kilda , and that they would almost be made to feel responsible for any disappointment . |
| 17 | But let s just see what your streetwise , closing-time training can do . ’ |
| 18 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 19 | They been coming round every day just to see you 're okey dokey |
| 20 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 21 | So intrigued did Charlie become by these seemingly endless selling opportunities that he started to take a tram up to the West End on a Sunday morning just to see for himself . |
| 22 | oh God just see it |
| 23 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 24 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
| 25 | It 's here such wet pants just to see , it 's probably all gone . |
| 26 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 27 | He said , ‘ Now what I have in mind is a stroll to the end of the valley just to see what goes on there , then back to the car and home for tea , how about that ? ’ |
| 28 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 29 | My parents would go and stand outside the Aldwych theatre just to see the audience going in to see me . |
| 30 | If you 're that spare about the images you choose to show of a city , you can create a feeling of an entire world just seen through very limited vision . |