Example sentences of "[adv] do just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 2 | And all of them can only do just carry on , the money 's not there , it 's not there is it ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We were just getting enough money in to do just enough in the church . |
| 5 | Yet Melvin Thorley , 45 , his uncle Eric Hobson , 79 , and five friends have clubbed together to do just that . |
| 6 | Okay what we 'll just do just just a brief . |
| 7 | A Tory backbench constitutional committee may soon do just that . |
| 8 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 9 | But it will not do just to dismiss the evidence of their experience out of hand . |
| 10 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 11 | But geology , is not done just to be applied . |
| 12 | Pity , because she seemed to have already done just that . |
| 13 | Long before California and Australia elected to name their wines after the grape variety or varieties from which they were produced , Alsace was already doing just that . |
| 14 | But if Prince pleases , in music , in bed , it 's because nothing is ever done just to please . |
| 15 | I 've ever done just keeping quiet ! |
| 16 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 17 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 18 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 19 | ‘ I nearly did just now , ’ said Masklin . |
| 20 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 21 | In different ways , both pre- or nonfeminist linguists and feminists themselves have very often done just this . |
| 22 | Wahlitits , with his cousin Sarpsis Ilppilp ( Red Moccasin Tops ) and nephew Swan Necklace , had set out to do just that . |
| 23 | We stood on the beach at Hastings , and even my quiet father cheered as wave after wave of the RAF went out to do just that . |
| 24 | And she set out to do just that by making the little budgie one of Britain 's most popular pets . |
| 25 | The audience was given no hint that he was envisaging the terms as an antithesis , let alone that he was feeling his way towards significant categories of thought , although from various notes from the winter of 1869–70 it is clear that he was now doing just that . |
| 26 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 27 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 28 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 29 | Adele duly did just that , fondly imagining that a lone fireman would come out to her East Street home in an anonymous van with the suitable cutting equipment . |
| 30 | At a special general meeting held in the Princess Beach Hotel and Casino , Curacao , by Netherlands Antilles , on 22 October 1990 , Cohere duly did just that and the whole battle over the future of Velcro was put on ice . |