Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Norman , ’ said de Sousa as the coffee and brandy were being poured , I wonder if we ought perhaps to have just a tiny natter about the programme . ’ |
| 2 | Certainly no one should ever know just how much distress he could cause her . |
| 3 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 4 | A Tory backbench constitutional committee may soon do just that . |
| 5 | Okay what we 'll just do just just a brief . |
| 6 | Thursday , Friday , Saturday , but er if I have to go up town I , I 'll probably go just round there |
| 7 | Christ 's feet in ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service , are ‘ unoffending ’ which may mean without sin , but might also mean just harmless or inoffensive , devoid of power in a way paralleling Origen 's sexual impotence ; the apparent presence of God need not guarantee Christ 's power . |
| 8 | The quickness with which smut has reappeared has been a sobering experience for many agriculturalists and serves as a warning that problems which have apparently disappeared may still lie just below the surface . |
| 9 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 10 | A Supreme Soviet of fine words and few deeds could quickly become just an irritant , a scapegoat for a ‘ democratization ’ which does not put goods in the shops . |
| 11 | I told him that the Owsla 's privileges did n't mean all that much to me in any case and that a strong rabbit could always do just as well by leaving the warren . |
| 12 | Oxford remain marginal favourites but Cambridge have a slight weight advantage and could also have just enough extra pace to take charge . |
| 13 | You could never believe just how big such places were until you got up close . |
| 14 | She could never remember just how the rag business started , but she recollected that she no longer went three times a week to the paid school . |
| 15 | There are no means that I know of , perhaps some social scientists present could suggest some , by means of which you could actually assess just what sort of a contribution he made . |
| 16 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 17 | However , before you sit down to knit do look through the features — this month 's variety of topics may well include just the one you need . |
| 18 | The timing of his leaving would naturally suggest just such a conclusion . |
| 19 | This large number would still provide just one per volost' in the largest of all countries . |
| 20 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 21 | I mean , if someone asked you now if you wanted a cup of tea , you would instantly visualise just that and say ‘ yes please ’ . |
| 22 | A direct-link balanced tree index would also look just as in Fig. 7.3(a) before additions . |
| 23 | erm you would then like just to get the lump sum and say here you are . |
| 24 | ‘ He would never have just gone off , ’ said Keith 's father , driving instructor Graham Lockyer , 45 , of Stoneleigh , near Epsom , Surrey . |
| 25 | Much has changed since he was at the Academy in 1959 and he will soon see just how much When he makes a personal tour of the Academy . |
| 26 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 27 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 28 | That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’ |
| 29 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 30 | Nobody will ever know just how much of the oceans he had covered when he fell victim to the Spanish longliners , 3600 miles from Cork . |