Example sentences of "[pers pn] just [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 2 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 3 | Can I just finish off the front I can do that tonight , tonight please ? |
| 4 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 5 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 6 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 7 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 8 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 9 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Could you just hold up the bidding while my boys settle with the opposition ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 13 | Yeah you just came out the loo and then you just said Amy . |
| 14 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 15 | You just get out the path , you just get down the school path |
| 16 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 17 | You just read out the crap . |
| 18 | ‘ With friends , you do n't introduce yourself , there 's no need to ring and say ‘ It 's Tessa here ’ , you just pick up the phone and wail : ‘ I threw up last night , ’ or ‘ I ca n't stand it , he has n't called . ’ |
| 19 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 20 | And you just look down the route now and decide whether they 're achievable or realistic . |
| 21 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 22 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 23 | We just put down the size of the ad the advertiser the practice the town . |
| 24 | Okay erm , if we just turn over the sheet look at distribution of er of the F statistic . |
| 25 | We just wonder round the estate . |
| 26 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 27 | Sometimes they just go over the top . |
| 28 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 29 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 30 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |