Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 2 | The gun is loud enough to frighten them just as much ; but , calm , surgical thing that it is , it improves your chance of a first-time kill . |
| 3 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 4 | Those things get so twisted it just makes me look stupid . ’ |
| 5 | So let me just check . |
| 6 | Okay , so let me just write that on the back , Monday to Friday and that 's nine to four thirty . |
| 7 | So let me just think . |
| 8 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 9 | So let me just give you two brief quotations from real press releases which I have , I 've got piles and piles of these things . |
| 10 | Tile lagoonal facies has been disputed and the estuarine facies is complicated in various ways and confuses the issue , so let us just consider three of these facies : the offshore , the deltaic and the fluviatile . |
| 11 | But when someone talks to you loud like I just did the microphone seems to stop . |
| 12 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 13 | Are you in rented property so feel you just have to put up with what you have ? |
| 14 | fraid so … only took them just over a minute as Paul Devlin poked the ball home from a corner |
| 15 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better tell it just the same , ’ I said . |
| 17 | Well I think we 'd better leave them just to do what they like , cos I expect Gwen wants to get on with her dinner now . |
| 18 | But still easy enough to get it just a tiny bit wrong . |
| 19 | So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ? |
| 20 | So did they just have you on right away ? |
| 21 | Only married him just before he died , that I do mind . |
| 22 | Er to crash a er right let me just read er right er okay . |
| 23 | Right let me just explain then just just for the sake of completeness . |
| 24 | right let me just then talk very briefly about this fella . |
| 25 | Yes , hang on , hang on let me just , I think that agreement is a bit loose although I 'm grateful to mention those new specific groups er , because I think if , if we 're , if we 're allocating this sort of money , we would , we would want some er , some guarantees |
| 26 | Hang on let me just turn the television down . |
| 27 | Yeah , hold on let me just go in the other room and see if my cup 's in there |
| 28 | Hold on let me just put on these thingies . |
| 29 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 30 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |