Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well every bonfire night it was the time for most people to get rid of the fleas and the mattresses and er and bonfire night we used to come just right . |
| 2 | I used to wonder just what the kestrel was looking at , what it was thinking , and I 'd imagine how wonderful it must be to be suspended in mid-air , looking down on the Earth as it was . |
| 3 | Paul 's little brother Ed used to look just like that on long car journeys before he … |
| 4 | I used to do just occasional jobs you know . |
| 5 | And of course as many of you will know , the railway line er used to run just in front , here . |
| 6 | He was a dairyman , only he used to keep just one or two cows and he used to help me with spare time . |
| 7 | Her parents used to live just inland from Brighton in a converted windmill . |
| 8 | Ghana cocoa farmers used to get just 7% of the price of their crop : the rest went to the cocoa marketing board or in taxes . |
| 9 | Yeah but erm we used to have just an |
| 10 | The Spanish used to tremble just to hear his name ! ’ |
| 11 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 12 | ‘ Well , then , you ought to feel just as sorry for silly people . |