Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | L would myself much prefer to wait on just one diner , even if he were a total stranger . |
| 2 | A research programme was undertaken to find out just what consumers thought of the product . |
| 3 | ‘ I intend to find out just why we 're selling room rates to Travel Enterprise for less than they are worth , ’ he said slowly . |
| 4 | cats and dogs being in the country there , were always about , the cat starts to go out just the same as the dogs did , they did n't and they did n't , even when we inherited that old , old tom cat in Sussex , he stayed with us and he , he mangy old thing was n't he , in one of the stables never accursed to me to . |
| 5 | While her hands were busy rooting the ingredients out of their packs , Jezrael tried to work out just how she did feel about the Magyar , but that was a niggling discomfort blunted by the stone weight of her worry about Chesarynth — and about Antoine . |
| 6 | And as my ribs heaved agonizingly and my leg muscles protested , I tried to work out just how many miles we had run . |
| 7 | David tried to work out just when Carole would return . |
| 8 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 9 | So specifiers will need to know not just that a tile meets EC requirements , but — crucially in northern Europe — in what way it meets those requirements . |
| 10 | It 's here for you — a great page designed to help on just about everything . |
| 11 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 12 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 13 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 14 | Tramway , Brook mused , had come to mean not just the bricks and mortar of a disused tram shed , but a place for human beings to create . |
| 15 | Efforts should be made to preserve not just the facades but a substantial part of the interior as well , and possibly the whole building . |
| 16 | I share the desire of my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) in wanting to see not just passenger traffic but freight able to make a direct contact with the channel tunnel from all parts of the country , especially the north and the north-west . |
| 17 | The flash that followed seemed to come not just from the magazine itself but from the whole width of the horizon . |
| 18 | As contacts came to comprise not just diplomatic intercourse , but a whole range of economic , military , social and cultural interests , the scope for both friendship and conflict became greater . |
| 19 | She 'll be wanting to set off just as soon as she 's finished her breakfast . ’ |
| 20 | The Burton Group came to own not just Burtons but Debenhams , Principles , Top Shop , Evans , Champion Sports and Radius — an awful lot of the average high street . |
| 21 | Contrary , then , to some of its more overreaching definitions , postmodernism itself could be said to mark not just the cultural effects of a new stage of ‘ late ’ capitalism , but the sense of the loss of European history and culture as History and Culture , the loss of their unquestioned place at the centre of the world . |
| 22 | Theodora was very much aware of his charm which seemed to stem not just from pleasant good looks but from a kind of inner confidence . |
| 23 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 24 | As the definition of meditation developed in scope , so prayer came to denote not just intellectually formulated structures but a desire for God which sometimes rises to a direct consciousness of his presence . |
| 25 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 26 | As The Very Model of a Man is full of angels and story-tellers — two essential ingredients of ‘ magic realism ’ — there is clearly a strong hint that Jacobson is attempting to rewrite not just the Bible but our contemporary literary orthodoxies , which are in danger of assuming the status of a surrogate religion . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a cold , hard world out there , and one or two people are going to find out just how hard in the not-too-distant future . |
| 28 | Because of the fact that code switching , when it occurs , is pervasive in bilinguals ' speech , and defies analysis on any one level , individual researchers have tended to focus on just those few aspects of code switching which are of particular relevance to them . |
| 29 | And Sheridan admitted : ‘ Chris has so much ability I have got to play well just to stay in the team . |
| 30 | Her only other fashion rule is always to make sure her shoes and tights are the same colour , making her 5ft 5 inches seem to stretch up just a little further . |