Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 2 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 3 | ‘ I did not just hear ! ’ she retorted . |
| 4 | I did n't just wan na be put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't just wannabe put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ . |
| 6 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 8 | " I did n't just let her send me to bed — I wanted to go to bed . " |
| 9 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't just fall over , I fainted . |
| 11 | cos I did n't just |
| 12 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 13 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 14 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 15 | When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery . |
| 16 | Do it again to make sure you did not just let go of the stick in fright ! |
| 17 | You did not just give me my money for passing ! |
| 18 | ‘ Mind telling me , sir , why you did n't just wait in the twenty-minute car-park ? |
| 19 | You did n't just pluck those adjectives out of thin air . |
| 20 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 21 | You did n't just er |
| 22 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 23 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | She did n't just switch off the television during love scenes in a film , for instance , but even if a scantily clad woman was shown on a beach or something . |
| 26 | She did n't just pin them up on her walls , these women , she studied them . |
| 27 | She did n't just mean like a misplaced person , floating loose in society . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's what I keep asking myself — because she did n't just leave . |
| 29 | In fact , she did n't just feel like groaning — the frustration and worry she felt at the moment were enough to make her want to scream blue murder ! |
| 30 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |