Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] do [adv] just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We 've given a lot of blood , sweat and tears and I do n't just want to pass it all on for somebody else to inherit . |
2 | I suppose there 's always nutters about , but there is something special about the band , and I do n't just mean their liability to lawsuits . |
3 | And I do n't just mean the belief that you 're trying to communicate . |
4 | ‘ The universities have a lot to offer industry , and industry has a lot to offer universities , and I do n't just mean money , ’ he said . |
5 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
6 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
7 | There are voices you turn to as a friend , and you do n't just turn your back on your friends if they go off the rails . |
8 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
9 | And we do n't just want the big bulls . |
10 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
11 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
12 | 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 |
13 | And they do n't just fade away , they stay with you . |
14 | And it does n't just apply to woman , it can apply to men as well . |
15 | But I do n't just go in one shop , and I never buy anything without looking at the price . |
16 | Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’ |
17 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
18 | ‘ But you do not just march into a druggist 's and demand atropine , ’ objected Auguste . |
19 | But we do n't just want to scratch about . |
20 | But they do n't just flower for the fortnight you spent in Sarajevo : English roses fill the air with fragrance for month after month . |
21 | Yes , he had one to celebrate , but he did n't just buy one he bought a box . |
22 | But he did n't just try the handle . |
23 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
24 | BUT it does n't just happen by accident . |
25 | The wardrobe when it landed did n't it hit a corner , but it did n't just crumple up , it exploded . |