Example sentences of "[to-vb] and just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 2 | But , I felt , I know , at one point I really thought I was going to have to ring Iris to come and just sit with the kiddies , but I thought well if I drop down what the hell , devil this house gon na look like in , with three of them let loose in . |
| 3 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 4 | ‘ With no product to sell and just to play the music . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 6 | As things have changed round here , things are changing present time er which has so much , however , and there are other areas er just report will be reconsidered er and the right sort of er er area of cover er that we would wish to see and just cutting services , we 're talking about improving resources from an area which is clear to areas where there is no further issue , or etc. , etc. , there is not adequate cover . |
| 7 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it is unwise to generalise and just see planners as an abstract class of bureaucrats for that is to compound their alleged weakness ourselves . |
| 9 | ‘ I stopped trying to win and just thought about making enough money to stay ahead of everybody else . |
| 10 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 11 | I 'd decided to relax and just go along with the ‘ package ’ that he offered . |
| 12 | Back on their own territory , ‘ Closer To Fine ’ , a campus anthem with a line about graduation sending an end-of-term whoop through the preppy crowd , the girls give up trying to sing and just let their fan(atic)s sing it back to them , eerily word-perfect . |
| 13 | It would be easier all round to suggest coming to eat and just to eat — leaving as pudding is cleared away ( or better , after you 've helped to wash it up ) . |
| 14 | Many parents find that if they put a pudding or sweets in front of the child as an incentive the child is likely to refuse to eat and just demand the reward . |
| 15 | She kept looking at him , and he kept trying to hide what he felt , but when they danced together , holding each other , he kept wanting to stop and just stand there , mouth hanging open ; express through sheer immobility something he possessed no dynamic for , To touch her , hold her , smell her . |
| 16 | She was so surprised she could n't think of anything to say and just stood for a moment staring at him . |
| 17 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 18 | Slick , sticky , slimy , squelchy — gloop is easy to make and just washes away |
| 19 | While they might find ‘ delinquent ’ behaviour , in its many manifestations , irritating , as the role of juvenile labour in the production process was always either peripheral or auxiliary , the ‘ delinquency ’ was more than compensated for by the advantages of using young workers who were cheap , malleable , non-unionized , easy to recruit and just as easy to dismiss . |