Example sentences of "[adv] just [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
2 | Erm , I think since we 've got some new people here , I 'll , I 'll perhaps just say a little bit about the group shall I , just to explain how we operate and erm and also how this meeting is going to operate erm . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
6 | Yes , we 'd better just approve the minutes of the meeting process , of the last meeting first of all , had n't we lads ? |
7 | He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him . |
8 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
9 | The sound was deep , electronically slick and fluid , but feathered with a tremolo so fine you could only just distinguish the individual notes . |
10 | John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act . |
11 | You 'd only just multiply the thing , you 'd spill petrol on an already burning flame . |
12 | Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
15 | Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C … |
16 | He joked : ‘ I would rather just do the run — but I 'm told I 've got to go through with the ceremony as well . ’ |
17 | ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 … |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
27 | But this network will not just serve the big occasions . |
28 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
29 | So Commander Blake we should not just offer a stick saying that we we are n't going to help you until we start dismantling your military programme , we should offer carrots too , do you agree ? |
30 | 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 . |