Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love to see them just to see what it 's like , okay . |
| 2 | Do you want me just to leave it ? |
| 3 | Do you want me just to catch you something first Alex ? |
| 4 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 5 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
| 6 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 7 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 8 | The council told me just to stay there the weekend . |
| 9 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 10 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
| 11 | I told you just to count them . ’ |
| 12 | No , I do n't think Mr would want you just to have sausages . |
| 13 | But he , he said to the insurance people no I do n't want you just to keep on paying the bills . |
| 14 | ‘ There was no way I was paying them just to change money . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you like me just to look through it all ? ’ she offered . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure you did n't ring me just to tell me that , ’ she replied , in no mood for light-hearted flirtation , try to pin on a brave face though she might . |
| 17 | Maybe that was why this picture just would n't work : she was expected to produce a suitable work in return for the fellowship that was supposed to be paying her just to paint . |
| 18 | I begged him just to let me see her . |
| 19 | Scream out James , come here a minute and , and you cou you could use it just to carry on the conversation . |
| 20 | They 'd have terminated me just to get rid of a nuisance . |
| 21 | But I can clear these out for ninety quid apiece I think I 'd move them just to get rid of them do n't you ? |
| 22 | If for no other reason , he 'll probably meet her just to get back at me . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah it 's about , it 's a true story It 's got this man right , and they killed him just to get the diamonds , and now she 's acting as a , and she 's killing them . |
| 24 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 25 | very good I says but you tell her just to forget that will ya ? |
| 26 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 27 | You can configure it just to display the horoscope if you wish and you can have the weekends horoscopes automatically displayed on a Friday . |
| 28 | spent half an hour maximum , maybe twenty minutes would be , all it would take you just to do that one problem , while it 's reasonably fresh in your mind . |
| 29 | Would he have been prepared to marry anyone who would have him just to keep Kirsty out of her hands ? |
| 30 | Therefore they find it just to overthrow the Northern statelet by whatever degree of force proves necessary . |