Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] just for " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAURICE : ( from a distance ) : I hope you did n't buy them just for me . |
| 2 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 3 | Do n't I mean do n't , do n't buy it just for this it 's just that if you had it handy |
| 4 | I want it just for us . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're not going to shoot you just for trying . |
| 6 | I went to visit her just for a coffee or something , and she started saying , after a lot of stuttering , that I was having an affair with her husband . |
| 7 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 8 | Yes , if it was essential for the character but I would n't do it just for hype . |
| 9 | It is not in your nature to use them just for your own enrichment , for titillating the vanity of young society women . |
| 10 | Yeah can I just stop you just for a second ? |
| 11 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 12 | It might be possible to book them just for a day . |
| 13 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 14 | Maura loved him just for those words . |
| 15 | Do n't have it just for the thing that 's free inside . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not doing it just for you , Ellie , ’ Patsy said , spitting into his hands . |
| 17 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
| 18 | Now , Reed is er joining us just for this term , is n't it ? |
| 19 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 20 | She now knew that he could never satisfy her , but was not prepared to dislike him just for that . |
| 21 | I bought them just for the bag though . |
| 22 | But I think that if we can grab him just for half and hour |
| 23 | ‘ I bought it just for a laugh . ’ |
| 24 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 25 | You did it just for the delight of fishing . ’ |
| 26 | Treat the family and serve it with your favourite meats and salads — do n't save it just for the turkey ! |
| 27 | They say , ‘ Thank you for playing the hymn , you did n't mention my name so although I know you were n't playing it just for me , I felt as if you were ’ . |
| 28 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 29 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 30 | Jake gazed across the dim dunes again , still gripping her in his arm : and it felt now as if he held her just for comfort — his own , perhaps , as much as hers . |