Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | behind him , where they look just as snug as mummies . |
| 2 | Okay , so they 've just done their demo , but then are they gon na take demo |
| 3 | would n't believe me so they say just one more thing |
| 4 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 5 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 6 | Everyone else , including the screws and the pigs , they all talk as if they 've just learned how . |
| 7 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 8 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 9 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 10 | you know , sometimes people , sort of , look as if they 've just got out of bed ! |
| 11 | but , sort of like er , erm its like so , some of those paintings of the wraps and beautiful boat , they look as if they 've just been photographed , they looked as if they 're a photograph not a oil , oil painting . |
| 12 | Yeah , it looks as if they 've just been sort of put in in a heap |
| 13 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 14 | The lecture theatre resonates like a drum with the chatter of a hundred-odd students , all talking at once , as if they have just been released from solitary confinement . |
| 15 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 16 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 17 | That same look full understanding , unwelcome wonder — as if they have just seen everything , even the figure in the dream with his white coat and his black boots and , in his wake , a night sky full of souls . |
| 18 | Go straight in cos they 've just gone in . |
| 19 | ‘ They look like they 've just fallen there . |
| 20 | ‘ The Inspirals look like they 've just had a charisma bypass operation . ’ |
| 21 | He stands straight , like they do just before the game . |
| 22 | no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught . |
| 23 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |
| 24 | erm We know they play in erm I think it 's Surrey three , or Surrey two , erm I 'm not sure which one it is actually , because they 've just revamped their leagues . |
| 25 | But I ca n't I find it hard to explain why the after such a good performance against West Ham , But you know , it 's just all over , be saying that about his side second half now wo n't he , because they 've just put one point about a nine , and they 're a good side . |
| 26 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 27 | ‘ I suspect a lot of them get carried away and think because they have just passed their test they are great drivers . |
| 28 | Whether they have just arrived in this country , or speak little English or have difficult home circumstances , unless we see them as competent learners we will soon find reasons why they can not learn . |
| 29 | We are sensitive to members openly criticising sponsors and golf courses , particularly after they 've just taken 77 ’ — Montgomerie 's second-round score . |
| 30 | when they 've just had a call in , to start on Monday . |