Example sentences of "just [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't take me up on anything — you just repeat it in a different order . |
| 2 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 3 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 4 | Otherwise I will just do it in a different colour , a different |
| 5 | You can just do it like a normal take away . |
| 6 | Can I just borrow you for a few moments ? |
| 7 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 8 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 9 | you know , just put it on a big table and just left it , we did n't have them sitting down |
| 10 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 11 | Well that 's , what I do is I use that metal that you can hang it with and just hang it onto a little hook so it 's up and over and out of the way . |
| 12 | Okay now she 's off really quickly on a reach but she 's oversheeted , she 's got too much power there , she 's sheeting the sail in instead of easing it out until it flaps and then just pulling it in a little . |
| 13 | Could just see it in a Trivial Pursuit question |
| 14 | This will prevent you ‘ losing ’ variations — as will happen if you just copy them into a new Suitcase file . |
| 15 | This time Roman said nothing , just observed her with a brooding air of deliberation , for so long that she felt quite faint with nervous tension . |
| 16 | Could I just move you on a little bit ? |
| 17 | I think I can just glimpse it as a dim fuzz , though large telescopes are needed to bring out its form and its very hot central star , which has a surface temperature of around 75000 degrees . |
| 18 | Why ca n't we just have them in a loose-leaf binder with dividers in , and let the engineer decide how to hold documentation together ? |
| 19 | It 's the matter of the moment really , you just fling them into a roasting tin do n't you and put it in the oven ? |
| 20 | Do n't shorten the stems , just tidy them to a clean cut , and do the same with any broken roots . |
| 21 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 22 | Carolingian rulers did n't just receive them as a given : rather , they created , recreated , shaped them for themselves . |
| 23 | and then just do it as a straight bar graph . |
| 24 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 25 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
| 26 | The money wage just puts you into a particular sub-section of the general category " wage-earner " . |
| 27 | Just stick them in a hot oven . |
| 28 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 29 | They just throw you in a white room , just a room with a white floor , white roof , white door . |
| 30 | To her astonishment , though , when the Dobermann had just held her in a gentle restraining grip , and no more than that , she could see that there were already small signs of bruising beginning to show on either side of her ankle . |