Example sentences of "[pron] do not just [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't just sit back . |
| 2 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't just fall over , I fainted . |
| 5 | You do n't just give up . |
| 6 | You do n't just walk up to someone and say , " Hi ! |
| 7 | I mean you 're like me , you want profession , you do n't just come out and throw it , like that , you see |
| 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 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 10 | We do n't just go in and teach them . |
| 11 | This is why we have instituted imaginative reforms of education , of health , of the legal profession , of social security , and of other crucial areas of our national life — so that we do n't just do more , but also do better . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 14 | She will say : ’ Having been through music school , I 've seen so many people who really play their instruments — I mean , they did n't just plug in and press a button . |
| 15 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 16 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 17 | over a five year period , I mean they do n't just happen overnight |
| 18 | They do n't just turn up on the night , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know why , if they do n't want people to come here , ’ said Betty fretfully , ‘ they do n't just put up notices all along the border describing the weather conditions . ’ |
| 20 | And they do n't just fade away , they stay with you . |
| 21 | Well I think it gives them a link with the church , erm and they do n't just come in and say oh yes , turn up on Saturday and you 'll get married , there 's some meeting before that |
| 22 | Paul again when he 's writing to the Philippians , in chapter four and verse thirteen , he says I can do all things , oh how arrogant of you Paul , how boastful you are , oh no he did n't just finish there did he , he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me , and writing to the Romans in that tremendous eighth chapter of Romans and verse thirty seven he says in all these things , in all the problems of life , in all the difficulties and all the temptations , in all the pressures that we are called to go through he says , in all of these things we overwhelmingly concur , we are triumphant he says , how , through him who loved us . |
| 23 | He wondered , more than once , why he did n't just turn round and go home . |
| 24 | It did n't just start off with human beings , they s started in sectors and it spread . |
| 25 | The wardrobe when it landed did n't it hit a corner , but it did n't just crumple up , it exploded . |
| 26 | I mean I assumed he wanted me to know Poindexter 's name was Beethoven … it did n't just slip out . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it does n't just take both into account in terms of some vague philosophical waffle , you know , that anybody could come to , sitting on a bar stool , after they 've had enough er , dry martinis , you know as people sometimes good , people sometimes bad . |
| 28 | You sure it does n't just push in and does it come ? |
| 29 | According to former Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup player Paul McGinley , who obtained his European Tour Card last year , it does n't just come down to how much natural ability a player has . |