Example sentences of "[adv] just [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
| 2 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 3 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 4 | Yes , we 'd better just approve the minutes of the meeting process , of the last meeting first of all , had n't we lads ? |
| 5 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 7 | The sound was deep , electronically slick and fluid , but feathered with a tremolo so fine you could only just distinguish the individual notes . |
| 8 | John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act . |
| 9 | You 'd only just multiply the thing , you 'd spill petrol on an already burning flame . |
| 10 | Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French . |
| 11 | Because of the remarkable contours of the ground , a fielder in the deep can only just see the tops of the heads of his teammates . |
| 12 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 13 | He joked : ‘ I would rather just do the run — but I 'm told I 've got to go through with the ceremony as well . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling . |
| 15 | It may just be an extremist minority within a minority that would take offence , but one company told PEN it would rather just take the easy way out and not have pigs . |
| 16 | I 'm well in front and I can easy just lose the hundred but I I 'll try for it without trying to knock down too many skittles . |
| 17 | According to director of software marketing , Dan Esterlin , Primrose arranges things using a peer-to-peer system and does not just partition the application once , but every time the application is run . |
| 18 | They can not just assume the researcher role and use students as experimental subjects , observing how they learn under varying conditions with detached interest to satisfy an intellectual curiosity . |
| 19 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 20 | We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception . |
| 21 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 22 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 23 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
| 24 | But this network will not just serve the big occasions . |
| 25 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 26 | We should look seriously at such ideas , because , unless we say that everybody should be in work at the same time , we can not just forget the pool of unemployed . |
| 27 | The evidence they yield does not just quantify the token occurrence of existing category types , for the most part derived from intuition , but also suggests that the types themselves stand in need of revision so that the language as abstractly conceived by the linguist is brought into closer correspondence with the language as actually realized by the user . |
| 28 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 29 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 30 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |