Example sentences of "done just " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the punch line : ‘ This is n't done for something , it is done just so . ’ |
| 2 | Having done just that half way through this contest which was judged on time in the first round , she had an agonising wait to see whether anyone would catch her . |
| 3 | This will not be done just by saying No to things . |
| 4 | But if Prince pleases , in music , in bed , it 's because nothing is ever done just to please . |
| 5 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 6 | With a lot of help from other people I believe we 've done just that . |
| 7 | Everyone has their memory of someone who has done just that , from Jose-Maria Olazabal last year backwards . |
| 8 | It has done just 3000 miles and the gearbox is very stiff when changing up from second to third gear , but not when changing down from fourth to third , Do you think it will loosen up in time ? |
| 9 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 10 | This can be done just by pushing them together . |
| 11 | B has acquired ownership through a different disposition ( institution as heir ; although a legacy would have done just as well ) . |
| 12 | But geology , is not done just to be applied . |
| 13 | Yet by the end of May he had done just that , and his entry was on its way . |
| 14 | I have done just this , or rather it was thrust upon me . |
| 15 | Fry has done just about every other job at Barnet , including cleaning out the toilets , so the boardroom would seem a natural progression . |
| 16 | She just appears out of thin air- ’ At this point Mildred broke off and looked around in case she had done just that , but she had n't . |
| 17 | They laid Victor on the floor of their shack and prayed for him , but Victor , realising that nothing could be done just gave up and refused to eat . |
| 18 | In different ways , both pre- or nonfeminist linguists and feminists themselves have very often done just this . |
| 19 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ In times of recession one should look at cost-cutting and the princess has done just this . |
| 20 | And James had done just that . |
| 21 | ‘ We believe we have done just that , and this team will go down as an outstanding one in any era . |
| 22 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 23 | And given that devices change as new models are introduced , there will then be a daunting support job to be done just to keep up with the market . |
| 24 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 25 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 26 | People who challenge the assumption that much of what a house officer does could be done just as well by someone without a medical qualification may be surprised to learn that in Taunton and Cheltenham nurse practitioners are already working as house officers on two surgical firms ( box ) . |
| 27 | A small boy of 8 called Louis had done just this . |
| 28 | There was a widower , two doors away , whose garden had done just that : he never touched it , and grass grew feet thick all over it , and weeds flourished , and roses climbed the hedge , unpruned , and ramped across the soil . |
| 29 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 30 | To achieve finer detail , animals would have to move up into ultrasonic frequencies , and a number of mammals have done just that . |