Example sentences of "[vb mod] to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 2 | He used to just sit there with a 12 string guitar and often used a tape recorder with backing tracks , and then put on a harmony live or used a stylophone . |
| 3 | I used to just like comfortable clothes but now I 'm more into dressing up . ’ |
| 4 | I used to just like comfortable clothes but now I 'm more into dressing up , ’ she reveals . |
| 5 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 6 | I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’ |
| 7 | Well , I used to just stay in my house all night and lock myself in my room and think . |
| 8 | She seemed distressed , ‘ I mean Balbinder , he used to just sit by the telly , even now he still … he wants toys … he does n't want to do the things , he wants to do all the time what he wants to do … ’ |
| 9 | Cos they wo n't be used to just |
| 10 | I used to just let him get away with it . |
| 11 | And then my friends ' boyfriends , on an evening out , they used to just have a go at him , and I 'd feel really embarrassed . |
| 12 | I used to just sit and cry . |
| 13 | Otherwise he used to just shoot it up , you see ? |
| 14 | It 's like a a rou round disc that screwed on and as that wore at the back you used to just slacken the screw slightly and turn it round until a little bit more of it wore and then you turn it round again until the whole thing was worn down . |
| 15 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 16 | And er that 's and then of course and then of course in the other place where they used to do it , they used to just pull these ladders out and these there nets was all folded up and everything ready to do away abroad or anywhere you know . |
| 17 | And is it , I mean it used to just be men who would do these things and |
| 18 | Yeah we used to just put an old sack on and more or less bareback . |
| 19 | Keith used to just give them all twenty pence , but lately it 's been more . |
| 20 | We used to just |
| 21 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 22 | ‘ I used to just swot up on learning the key words and churning them out computer fashion , but now I am more interested in what they mean . |
| 23 | Oh well just talking and when anybody came here they used to just talk about about old stories and things like that . |
| 24 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
| 25 | used to just keep topping that you know |
| 26 | I remember we used to just fancy |
| 27 | Mine used to just shoot out ! |
| 28 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 29 | The job had just kicked off so the blokes used to just the phone inside you know if they wanted . |
| 30 | So I 've got all ready , for me AIDS cos I used to just think oh I do n't really , I could just go and get some leaflets on ban on |