Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made it my business to enquire just how serious your alleged relationship was . |
| 2 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 3 | She had already noticed on the streets of Florence how pretty the girls were — and how well dressed — and she made up her mind to look just as good . |
| 4 | Working on the Day-to-Day show was her chance to do just that . |
| 5 | Indeed , a recent and very comprehensive survey of handwriting recognition techniques and systems considered its significance to merit just one sentence : ’ Higher level linguistic rules such as syntax and semantics can also increase the recognition rate ’ [ Tappert et al , 1990 ] . |
| 6 | LEG 'S TALK ABOUT THIS : Fergie tries the inch-pinch by grabbing a handful of flesh on her leg to see just how wobbly it is — and pulls a face as she discovers the weighty truth |
| 7 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 8 | Karajan does everything in his power to do just that , whereas Rozhdestvensky is clearly convinced that is more the Romantic offspring of a late-Eighteenth Century Classical genre . |