Example sentences of "do just what " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not always do just what friends tell you , but they are the sounding boards who let you know how far to go . |
| 2 | ERIC Clapton closed his blues night with a touching version of a Bessie Smith classic , but as he sang ‘ Makes no difference what I do/Some folks will criticise/I 'm gon na do just what I want to do ’ , it seemed as if he was anticipating his reviews . |
| 3 | There were also fears that Japan planned to do just what America does : use defence spending and research to help build a civil aerospace industry , and thus beat Boeing . |
| 4 | But many people would prefer to do just what I did , and take a stroll along the most beautiful scenic promenades . |
| 5 | We do not have the freedom to do just what we like . |
| 6 | And all the whole , French scientists continued to do just what they had always done — make new discoveries and expand our understanding of the natural world . |
| 7 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 8 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 9 | And then when they get bigger you give them more and more freedom to do just what they want to do and all you do is watch carefully and make sure they 're not doing anything obviously , outrageously daft but you let them find themselves and if there are problems they bring their problems to you and you sit down and you quietly talk about it , there 's not shouting , no I say you 've got to do this because I am your parent ! |
| 10 | If he protests his innocence , he is doing just what he would do if he were guilty . |
| 11 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 12 | To this end , unbeknown to the millions who have brought about the event , Jesus Christ has been cast in the role of a surrogate Created God , and by ascribing to him all that goodness that they wish to preserve , those who profess the Christian faith , have been doing just what the concept of the Created God requires , and what this book advocates , except that they have deified a single historical individual , Jesus Christ , instead of an abstract conception drawing its being from a myriad of sources . |
| 13 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 14 | In both these cases , we are essentially doing just what Pooh does when he observes honey indirectly by inferring its presence from that of the bees he observes directly . |
| 15 | And I have spent all morning saying it can not possibly be true , that you devote all your time to your aunt , that you have scarcely left the house in over a month and all the time you were doing just what you were rumoured to be doing ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm doing just what you wanted me to do , Shannon Lea . ’ |
| 17 | Will the Minister pledge total support for the Nottingham city technology college for doing just what our young people and the nation need ? |
| 18 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |
| 19 | In other words , it will be those that do just what the grumblers demand — cutting imports , using local suppliers , doing R&D on the spot — that will be most threatening to General Motors , Ford , Volkswagen , Peugeot and Fiat . |
| 20 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 21 | Losey 's films during the 1950s and into the 1960s did just what Anderson seemed to be asking British films to do , posing questions about contemporary society in strong , engaging narratives . |
| 22 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 23 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 24 | He did just what I wanted and bent forward to pick them up . |
| 25 | ‘ 2 Hell With Common Sense ’ does just what its title urges and comes up with a startling , confident clutch of songs . |
| 26 | ‘ It does just what you ask of it . |