Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] just [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 2 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 3 | Right , the question of will crop up later on , you know if you have n't just seen the paper . |
| 4 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 5 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |