Example sentences of "things just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two things just clicked . |
| 2 | Things just keep happening to him . |
| 3 | ‘ Funny , is n't it , how things just slip away without you noticing ? |
| 4 | We were so incensed by her trying to run things just because she was Bob 's girlfriend — after all , what 's a concert party without a leg show ? — that we left in a bunch , and that was the end of that idea . |
| 5 | Things just get long . |
| 6 | You say things just the way I sense them and ca n't say them . |
| 7 | Do n't try to do too much in one day or you will end up making impulse buys that you will regret , and do n't buy things just because they are cheap . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to make every effort to ensure they have a rounded life and do n't miss out on things just because there is only one parent there for them , ’ said Mary . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |
| 10 | There would be things just as beautiful in Greece and it would be as hot or hotter . |
| 11 | James Bond fantasies , you know , when things just appear and you 're just sophisticated and your hair 's in a flip and you look great and you get on your private jet . |
| 12 | But things just went from bad to worse . |
| 13 | So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there . |
| 14 | The second way of budding is a little easier , perhaps , but needs practice to get things just right . |
| 15 | Those things just did n't happen then . ’ |
| 16 | Things just gradually start to build up and get on top of you and you either get more into the gear and try to forget about it , or you stop using it and try and sort out what 's left of your life . |
| 17 | Well , perhaps I nudged things just a little too far . |
| 18 | All these totally ludicrous things just make work for everyone , and the screws put pressure on the inmates with such pointless regulations as well as causing lots of paperwork for themselves . |
| 19 | A lot of things just did n't sink in . |
| 20 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 21 | You are n't forced into unnatural ways of doing things just to satisfy DOS 's illogical structure and impoverished workarounds . |
| 22 | But back then … well , I thought things just happened — you know the saying , Mei fa tzu , it 's fate . |
| 23 | Erm er if they 're , if they 're introverts , then it 's alright changing things just by changing people 's perception . |
| 24 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 25 | But things just got worse . |
| 26 | Pat said : ‘ Things just fell apart after mum died , now we want to get together again , and we wo n't rest until we find Pamela . ’ |
| 27 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 28 | If we tried to keep it alive we had an open flank : some guy trying to save his own ass by telling them : ‘ Jeez if you drink I did bad things just look at what Magill and Tadham were doing in London . ’ |
| 29 | They 've dropped things just any old how , he thought , listening to the distant chattering of the nomes . |
| 30 | And you should never do things just because you 're angry . |