Example sentences of "just something " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the casual or occasional visitor to High Rocks , the season ticket agreement may seem irrelevant at the moment — just something to please climbers living nearby who go there regularly . |
| 2 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't think of this as a sport ; it 's just something that has to be done . ’ |
| 4 | For me , there 's just something more powerful in Man 's ultimate punishments — whether they 're on a humanist level or a more mystical level — than in his ultimate rewards . |
| 5 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 6 | The practical aftermath of death seems to stimulate his curiosity these days ; nothing urgent , mind you , just something that begins to get in your mind when you 're watching blood move in and out of your body for half the day . |
| 7 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
| 8 | It 's just something to say . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , just something I came up with that Ari should be able to do herself . |
| 10 | ‘ They never made me go to auditions — it was just something that came up . |
| 11 | It was just something in my eye . ’ |
| 12 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 13 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 14 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 15 | It would be nice to see him married like the others , but it 's just something that I 've got to accept . |
| 16 | I am sure if The Box is just something you stick the kids down to watch while you get on with something else , harm can be done . |
| 17 | Do n't feel defeated : it 's just something new you needed to learn . |
| 18 | Graham Goodwin , a biochemist who jettisoned a career in molecular biology at Cambridge ( ‘ I ca n't really explain why ; just something missing ’ ) , now works around the farm . |
| 19 | I do not claim to be gifted — it 's just something you either possess or you do n't . |
| 20 | This is not just something for after lunch , |
| 21 | Keeping a pet is not like owning a video , though , a pet is not just something that is there for your entertainment , it is something that you have to care for . |
| 22 | Walking , it seems , is just something that we do , like breathing . |
| 23 | Well , that 's obviously a bit of a ridiculous generalisation , but there 's just something about his playing that was unexplainable . |
| 24 | I suppose it 's just something that I 've learned to live with . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just something we started doing , ’ says Edgar . |
| 26 | Just something to help me get back in his good books ! |
| 27 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 28 | I mean , he was great when he was old , but when he was young he was just something else . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 30 | Ca n't quite put my finger on what 's happened — just something in the air . |