Example sentences of "just see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just seeing why the water heater is n't working ! |
| 2 | Is it in effect equalises in terms of means , the people applying for housing so there is no need for a means test for potential tenants because they all have in housing terms , the same means , I I do you understand this , I mean it 's vitally important you understand this just to see why this motion is nonsensical . |
| 3 | When she went next door she would go into the bathroom just to see where he kept his flannel and what kind of toothpaste he used . |
| 4 | Someone 's got ta come round I mean just to see where but I just I 'll ring , I 'll give you a buzz on Monday , I know you 're not there , you can say , well , I 'll see you again on Tuesday in English , perhaps you can arrange something then . |
| 5 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 6 | Just to see how you 're doing . ’ |
| 7 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 8 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 9 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 11 | If you get stuck , uncover one line just to see how they 're starting . |
| 12 | And the detailed rules of company law must be tested not just to see how well they serve the interests of shareholders , but also how well they serve the interests of society in having an efficient and productive economy . |
| 13 | just to see how you 're getting along . |
| 14 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
| 15 | In the first week of good weather , over half the acting members of the Miracle Pageant came back to the plague village , just to see how their old friend Lucier was faring . |
| 16 | In fact , if I 'd been there I would have given the wretched old woman a hefty slap myself — just to see how she liked it ! ’ |
| 17 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 18 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 19 | Some market research just to see how many times you swear at me . |
| 20 | Not for the money just to be , just to see how they go on |
| 21 | said they went in just to see how she was |
| 22 | Well just to see how she is , I mean we have n't been down there |
| 23 | Some people that are local may have even driven here on the Sunday , just to see how to get here , so that on the Monday morning when it 's the rush hour , they knew generally where they were going to go . |
| 24 | In the few cases just seen where the to infinitive denotes an action , it also brings in the nuance of subsequence , of sudden movement from one instant to the next . |
| 25 | We have just seen how Kierkegaard rejected any idea that faith could be proved by the appeal to historical argument . |
| 26 | Now thinking about what we 've just seen how does that relate to that . |
| 27 | I could still just see where someone had written : ‘ DEUTSCHLAND KAPUT ’ with his finger , but it had melted and the letters had grown tails like tadpoles . |
| 28 | Now I say amazing let's just see where he got his winners . |
| 29 | ‘ So let's just see where we 've got to . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll just see how Jim is getting on . ’ |