Example sentences of "just [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just badly organized . |
| 2 | Nurseryman Mr Bootman , now recovering at his Grosvenor House Court home , Mildenhall , said it was first feared his legs were broken but they were in fact just badly bruised . |
| 3 | Preston shrugged , as one did who had just single-handedly dispatched a Beast who Rode the Underground . |
| 4 | Especially as voiced by an American who had disloyally taken the wrong side in a war just successfully completed ‘ for democracy ’ , the sentiments must have seemed — in 1948 , when The Pisan Cantos appeared — nothing short of shameless ! |
| 5 | The reader may have found those remarks somewhat quizzical , for I pointed out that while philosophers of education have advocated ‘ autonomy ’ as an outcome for the educator to aim at , there seemed something quirky about describing , say , a graduate who had just successfully completed a course as autonomous . |
| 6 | ‘ And , from someone who 's just successfully ruined the gearbox of the Land Rover , that , if I might say so , ’ she parodied , ‘ is the height of impertinence . |
| 7 | The Battersea group have just successfully organised their fourth ‘ Embassy crawl ’ or sponsored walk on Saturday 19 October . |
| 8 | Chigaga had just successfully negotiated a US$650 million economic restructuring package . |
| 9 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 10 | No-one could deny the lungs on the girl , but DM 's ‘ Dull Dull Dull ’ was suspiciously bereft of dimension , as if the band were just stylishly filling the indie hair shirt . |
| 11 | I did n't really need too much time to think about it , I just instinctively knew . |
| 12 | Maybe these Indians can only take so much of poling Jesuits upstream and just instinctively snap and turn nasty and shove them overboard . |
| 13 | Having just metaphorically done in front of the vicar , small children and grandparents what they are about to do in the bridal suite , they offer everyone a small , naughty slice . |
| 14 | Anne was crying now ; not just politely staining her cheeks , but leaking profusely from her eyes and nose . |
| 15 | I was just politely told they 'd left the area — " This number is no longer available as the special investigation team has left the area . " |
| 16 | After the funeral was over and the bereaved student returned to college , instead of going up to him and holding him — or even just politely commiserating with him — most students ignored him . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd just rather do it with men . |
| 18 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 19 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 20 | I was told that 's just verbally agreed rather than |
| 21 | At the moment they use their sitting room umm as just somewhere to put toys and washing and , just have n't decorated it or anything the dining room is still used like a living room , and what they really need is another room where they can . |
| 22 | Even if it was just somewhere built by humans . ’ |
| 23 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 24 | Leave blisters alone , just loosely cover everything with a clean dry cloth and call the doctor . |
| 25 | ‘ Silly sausage , ’ he teased , and , although she carried on studying to complete her A levels , when Fabia left school she seemed to just naturally fill the niche that was tailor-made for her in feeding and exercising the dogs and giving an extra helping of love and attention to the animals who needed it . |
| 26 | His feet just naturally kick things . |
| 27 | ‘ Well today you had just better fix it so there wo n't be any damage , ’ she said , and then speared him with a saccharin smile . |
| 28 | When fate marks you down for immortality you 'd just better bite the bullet and lace your boots up tight . |
| 29 | And the racism has n't gone away , it 's just better hidden . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd just better try … |