Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like it you know , you , you can spend a lot of bloody money just to try and improve |
| 2 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
| 3 | That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava . |
| 4 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 5 | In Colombia industries have been kept in the public sector just to get World Bank finance . |
| 6 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 7 | around Easter time erm would yous be able to take some person just to come and sit in your shop for a week out of our school ? |
| 8 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 9 | I 'll give you some paper just to jot them down in cos you can cos you |
| 10 | I hardly think you went to all this trouble just to check the plumbing . |
| 11 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 12 | Yet it was some relief just to speak . |
| 13 | I 'm even tempted to go out with another man just to get some love . |
| 14 | Green-skinned warriors will travel halfway across the Old World just to fight alongside a particularly powerful Warlord . |
| 15 | You ai n't come all this way just to collar me , ‘ ave you ? |
| 16 | ‘ Silas , darling — I 've come all this way just to see you and to be with you . |
| 17 | But erm and I just felt oh fancy all this way just to come and sit and play cards . |
| 18 | ‘ You have n't come all this way just to tell me you despise me , have you ? ’ |
| 19 | You were not chosen for this trip just to see an old flame , were you ? ’ |
| 20 | there may have been the odd light shower just to lay the dust but not a lot more . |
| 21 | Other things to think about when you 're identifying training alright a handout for you identifying training needs at this stage just to make sure that ya the are still out . |
| 22 | Pour in melted butter just to cover the meat . |
| 23 | Why would anyone renounce their entire career just to boost their ego ? |
| 24 | I do recommend starting with a nine sheet pattern ( see page 77 ) but a fairly simple pattern just to begin with should give you confidence to go on to bigger and better things . |
| 25 | John agreed to check that there are n't any more problems with our membership with John at central office just to make sure that we 're all sorted . |
| 26 | When it had arrived it had needed a separate table just to accommodate it ; luckily the restaurant was n't busy . |
| 27 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 28 | ‘ I had expected it would take a little while just to organise your thoughts . ’ |
| 29 | I happily pay my yearly subscription just to read Roger Angell 's occasional essays on baseball . ’ |
| 30 | I had a very very hard time just to look after my ill daughter , and I was trying to get help from everybody , but er I had a tremendous help er the neighbours were very good with me , the relations , my husband 's friends at work , er and er my own sisters and my brothers and their wives and my , my mum and dad , so I had a lot of support from everybody . |