Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] just " in BNC.

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1 And on Wednesday the police decided to invite the press along to see just how bad the situation has become in many areas of the North East .
2 On Wednesday the police decided to invite the press along to see just how bad the situation has become in many areas of the North East .
3 Bob Sawyer is one of her lodgers ; he owes her rent , which this ‘ little fierce woman ’ bounces in to demand just before his guests arrive for a bachelor party .
4 For art 's sake , Yeats held on to the myth of his high , unrequited love ( he even proposed marriage to Maud 's daughter when the child grew old enough to look just like her mother did , so long ago ) .
5 Yet somehow , sometimes , with the other kids , she felt guilty enough to blush just thinking about Miss Hazelwood .
6 As so defined , this ground for interception was wide enough to cover just about anything , from murder to breach of the peace .
7 The sergeant at the other end said grimly that the bloke was quite thick enough to do just that , so due precautions would be taken .
8 We were just getting enough money in to do just enough in the church .
9 Yet Melvin Thorley , 45 , his uncle Eric Hobson , 79 , and five friends have clubbed together to do just that .
10 Evidence was put together to demonstrate just how large a proportion of Nato 's current force was actually provided by the Europeans .
11 Moon walked this section as if it were HVS , only to fail just below the top .
12 An American poet , Carolyn Kizer , says that in the arts ‘ it is not enough to have just great personalities .
13 ‘ Norman , ’ said de Sousa as the coffee and brandy were being poured , I wonder if we ought perhaps to have just a tiny natter about the programme . ’
14 small number of sentences number that they come out understanding and that 's rather mysterious So to explain just in general terms , you 're interested in describing language in such a way that it 's the kindest thing that 's easy to learn , rather than hard to learn .
15 They would do much better to rely just on their three selves .
16 Many of these materials are expensive , but they can often be used successfully to decorate just one section of a room or part of the walls : above or below a dado rail for instance ; or as wall panels framed with timber mouldings , with a less expensive finish used on the rest of the wall .
17 I want to check downstairs to see just how far the water has now risen , ’ Maggie said .
18 I never thought I was soon to see just how miserable the peoples of the earth can make life for themselves .
19 He had begged her not to leave just yet .
20 brought him there for the view , but it was impossible not to watch just the aircraft lights , perhaps macabrely hoping one would lose its grip .
21 They go off to see just what she 's on about because she 's told them , he 'll do the same for you , what he 's done for me , he can do for you as well !
22 The adult females bob and dance with excitement , standing upright , craning their heads back and forth to see just what is going on .
23 He said he 's like to try just not er old en Robert Hardy 's our special patron really here , he 's very interested in coming to the banquet , he was up the other week was n't he , last Friday whenever it was .
24 This clock runs the sequence of l.e.d.s at a very rapid rate for a fraction of a second and then halts the process very quickly to leave just one of the indicators illuminated .
25 ‘ They were loading up to leave just when we came out . ’
26 The problems start , however , once we move on to consider just what rights should be included in any Bill ; once we consider the difficulties of implementation ; and once we assess the implications of any such legally enforced code and written constitution for the functioning of our system especially as these things involve the position of the elected government and the judges .
27 Now to see just how effective a daggerboard is , let's look at these two boats beating .
28 And they were n't out to mug just anyone passing .
29 ‘ We found that there was a lot of problematical sickness in the non-certified days , ie a lot of people were coming back to work just before they needed a doctor 's certificate .
30 I live in an area of high unemployment and it drives me mad when married mothers go back to work just to get out of the house .
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