Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People come from East and West in caravan after caravan just to look at it . ’ |
| 2 | Tell you what , it 's bloody tempting to take a couple of days off work just to burn |
| 3 | New Zealand , Australia and Scotland for that matter would never settle for second just to please a fickle press . |
| 4 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 5 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 6 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 7 | Of course just to run the thing users will have to be prepared to buy more hardware than is typical on a desktop . |
| 8 | Or is there some Steffi-crazy fan out there inundating the Tennis World office with letters cunningly disguised in a variety of handwriting just to confuse us ? |
| 9 | Well , cos that 's a lot of money just to spend is n't it ? |
| 10 | It was taking all her powers of concentration just to keep warm . |
| 11 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 12 | There was a feeling of relief — that was true — that it was Alain and not some midnight prowler , but also there was a wonderful floating feeling of joy just to hear his voice , no matter how angry he sounded . |
| 13 | She had behaved quite out of character just to get the better of him . |
| 14 | They wrangled interminably , he goading her into outbursts of anger just to watch her beauty at its best , she calling him all the names she could lay her tongue to . |
| 15 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 16 | There would , of course , be a temptation for small partnerships and sole traders to convert to the Limited Company form of operation just to avoid tax on distribution to the proprietors , so it might be necessary to levy a Stamp duty on companies as part of their annual running costs ; this would compensate the national exchequer for any abuse . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 18 | I can not see the point of building up your body by eating mountains of food just to pose before an audience . |
| 19 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 20 | Austrian parents do not have to suffer the embarrassment of going and asking for charity just to send their children to school looking like everyone else . |
| 21 | more per head from United Kingdom taxation than the rest of the United Kingdom , so unless England , of its benevolence , gave more tax revenues to Scotland there would have to be a 5p increase in tax just to stand still . |
| 22 | Put ½ lb. of fine dried apricots to soak in water just to cover for a couple of hours — or overnight if it is more convenient . |
| 23 | In fact just to race at this level means setting up base in England and giving full commitment to the sport . |
| 24 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 25 | I 'll have to get this on tape just to prove that |
| 26 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 27 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 28 | Women as much or more than men everywhere in the world — up to 13 hours more than men in Africa and Asia and very poor women are working 60–90 hours per week just to maintain their living standards of a decade ago . |
| 29 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 30 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |