Example sentences of "[verb] me just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you spare me just one of your beautiful pears ? " |
| 2 | That made me just seventeen when the War broke out . " |
| 3 | ‘ My monthly salary would buy me just four bottles of Johnny Walker whisky on the black market , ’ said Hatim , a professor of engineering at Baghdad University . |
| 4 | ‘ That will suit me just fine , young lady . |
| 5 | Her XR3i , I calculated , would do me just fine for a few days . |
| 6 | Twenty-four hours , Zack , give me just that … ’ |
| 7 | For a second I thought he was going to hit me , but then he reached into his jacket pocket and brought out a wallet that he unfolded and thrust towards me , giving me just enough time to see that he held the rank of chief inspector , one of the highest ranks in the Bahamian police force , then the wallet was snapped shut and Deacon Billingsley moved to stand very close to me , so close that I could smell the cigar smoke on his breath . |
| 8 | ( My favourites , if you 'll indulge me just two in-jokes , are the conferring of a knighthood on Professor John Maynard Smith , and the description of Professor Ernst Mayr , that eloquent and most unmathematical arch-critic of mathematical genetics , as " the high priest " of mathematical genetics . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Suits me just fine , ’ he drawled lazily . |
| 10 | Excuse me just one moment . |
| 11 | Per favore , you must help me just this once . ’ |