Example sentences of "[prep] just [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was n't worth just sitting around waiting for something to happen and I had already arranged to go to my friend 's house so I went out . |
| 2 | Basically government can increase or reduce unemployment by increasing labour demands through just handing out more jobs in the sector . |
| 3 | She let the silence go on , and wondered about just getting up and leaving right then without one word , not one word of the torrent foaming in her guts . |
| 4 | Because that 's smashing for just scooping up . |
| 5 | Pleasure boats , but people could use them for just getting around anywhere ? |
| 6 | Like actors remembered as great for just turning up , the moths are recalled as gigantic , vivid images when they were probably just spectral smudges . |
| 7 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 8 | But perfectionist Noureddine Morceli felt his two all-comers ' marks — 3:50.70 for the mile as well as 3:34.73 for the 1,500m en route — were no consolation for just missing out on Eamonn Coghlan 's world mile record . |
| 9 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 10 | Erm , I seem to remember that 's the day that East Anglia kind of just disappeared in |
| 11 | For the rest of the war it was a case of just ticking over until a splendid Victory Meet in 1919 which raised cash to help build the Richmond YMCA . |
| 12 | Instead of just cooking up three dimensions with all of the responsibility that modelling and casting can involve , she ‘ plunders ’ the freshness of a medium she does n't fully understand to bring spatial illusion into her own sculptural space . |
| 13 | Or if my mother comes up , and I 'm sort of just getting up , she says , oh do you want me to bring stuff up , or ideally , I usually say or I 'll come downstairs and get breakfast . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , I quite fancy the idea of just lazing around with my feet up . ’ |
| 15 | The hats emerged as a result of just messing around with it . ’ |
| 16 | So it was then a question of just sitting down with a blank sheet of paper and starting to draw , because a Designer thinks about structures and design only by doing it , by drawing what 's in his mind . |
| 17 | It takes the way things go instead of just making , yeah , instead of just sitting down and getting on with it . |
| 18 | Why did n't Benjamin demonstrate against the Vietnam War instead of just Lying around in his parents ' swimming pool ? |
| 19 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
| 20 | So it 's an impact outside of just closing down the car factory , and on the question of the effects on the community . |
| 21 | It 's been a bit sort of muggy this afternoon but we went out in the garden and we sort of just pottled around you know ? |
| 22 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 23 | You see , some of your ideas are beginning to rub off on me , and I want to start keeping better records here , as well has have regular weekly clinics instead of just coming up here on a casual basis . ’ |
| 24 | Instead of just coming down |
| 25 | They could of just shouted through ! |
| 26 | But the noise and the traffic and the petrol fumes and the stress of getting around — occasionally I feel like just selling up , giving my designer-clothes to Oxfam , and starting again in a simple dress of dimity ’ |
| 27 | But the information you produce should be honest , as factual as possible , and serve some useful purpose besides just puffing up your client 's ego . |
| 28 | The aim should be to out-climb every other glider nearby and not to be satisfied with just staying up , unless the conditions are very poor . |
| 29 | Is she doing anything apart from just walking along ? |
| 30 | I was indeed rather dubious about the whole idea , but we had n't been getting very far and there seemed to be no harm in just finding out some more about it . |