Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a peak of 400 mines around 1850 , the number has fallen to just four . |
| 2 | Stoute , who knows the family well , said : ‘ He has grown to just over 15.2 hands , which is a nice size for a racehorse , and I am hopeful that he will get further than a mile . ’ |
| 3 | We 've gone round looting and raping , we 've got to learn to just be . ’ |
| 4 | Where one unit is usually sufficient to satisfy the appetite and desire , we tend to keep to just one unit — one apple , one pear , one orange . |
| 5 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 6 | We were surprised to find that the 750 was only partially assembled , having expected to just pull it out of its box and start using it . |
| 7 | ‘ But they would never have reacted to just our pictures or our ceramics . |
| 8 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 9 | Only 40% of the world 's potential arable land was in use in 1975 , and that will have increased to just 50% in 2000 . |
| 10 | That er that line I think went to just er a bit further up and erm er I say not an any matter of er another couple of hundred yards I think before there was only a single track . |
| 11 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 12 | For example , the British Marxists Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1913–14 male clerks earned 122% of the average manual wage , but by 1971 this had fallen to just 96% . |
| 13 | In 1979 almost 65 per cent of places in residential homes were in local authority establishments , but by 1986 the proportion had fallen to just below 50 per cent . |
| 14 | By nineteen ninety two , it had fallen to just about twenty percent . |
| 15 | Last year that figure had fallen to just 7,800 properties . |
| 16 | If Division B could not sell all it could make at £120 , it would reject other sales once the price had dropped to just less than £90 . |
| 17 | By November 1938 it had shortened to just twenty . |
| 18 | Twenty years previously this traffic had amounted to just two million tonnes per annum . |
| 19 | White Hart Lane School in London used this approach when attendance had slumped to just 72 per cent . |
| 20 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 21 | Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life |
| 22 | I I think you 've got to just look at that constitutional concept . |
| 23 | to have but you 've got to just go for what you can erm well afford to . |
| 24 | oh well , we , really the weather 's not to bad , you , you have n't got to be to sensitive about things have you , you 've got to just take it enjoy the lot , enjoy |
| 25 | Yes , but you 've got to just leave the the thing , come on I think they want to close , and I want to get to Marks , so do you not really want the collage kit at the moment , you 've got collage kit 's have n't you ? |
| 26 | Look ; I thought we had agreed to just leave this — ’ |
| 27 | The calls , on the other hand , issued at 145p and carrying a strike price of £15.57 , have fallen to just 50p . |
| 28 | But you were confusing him because you knew , where he 's used to just sitting there and telling blah blah blah blah and |
| 29 | it 's like he 's got to just keep that little |
| 30 | ‘ We have not got a lot of money and we have got to just get on with the job of trying to sort things out on the field . |