Example sentences of "did n't just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Life did n't just fail , it failed spectacularly . |
| 2 | It did n't just fail to qualify , it failed to pre-qualify . |
| 3 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 4 | I did n't just wan na be put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't just wannabe put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ . |
| 6 | He wondered , more than once , why he did n't just turn round and go home . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's a bit of a loner , ’ Quincx replied , unsure why he did n't just tell Leila his suppositions . |
| 8 | She did n't just switch off the television during love scenes in a film , for instance , but even if a scantily clad woman was shown on a beach or something . |
| 9 | I mean I assumed he wanted me to know Poindexter 's name was Beethoven … it did n't just slip out . |
| 10 | ‘ Practicable ’ , however , did n't just mean that it could be done . |
| 11 | She did n't just pin them up on her walls , these women , she studied them . |
| 12 | The biography in the liner notes says that ‘ his output comprises a body of works composed in the last five years ’ : but Mason is in his late thirties now , and his music did n't just appear from nowhere . |
| 13 | He did n't just eat to live that horse , he lived to eat , which was obvious when you saw how fat he was . |
| 14 | ‘ It did n't just happen , Dermot . |
| 15 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 16 | Trucks did n't just set fire to themselves . |
| 17 | Ex-Switchboard volunteers did n't just help to found Lesbian Line . |
| 18 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 19 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
| 20 | But Seventies soccer star Chris did n't just find it hard . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They did n't just outplay us a bit — it was a lot . |
| 23 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
| 24 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 25 | She did n't just mean like a misplaced person , floating loose in society . |
| 26 | Troopies did n't just sprout of their own accord . |
| 27 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 28 | But he did n't just try the handle . |
| 29 | ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 … |
| 30 | We did n't just have one or two but several , all over the place . |