Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 2 | " If I 'm going somewhere I do n't just stand . |
| 3 | So you do n't just pay for kilowatts that you use , what do you pay for ? |
| 4 | So he had n't just walked away without another thought . |
| 5 | Now it did n't just move . |
| 6 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 7 | Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . |
| 8 | Well he does n't just have a few . |
| 9 | He argued that though historical materialism had satisfactorily explained the forms and conditions of human reality it had never established theoretically the validity of its own existence , never shown how it constituted not just the substance of reality but its logical form as well . |
| 10 | ‘ Women like you turn my stomach ! ’ he grated harshly , and , clearly fed up to the teeth with her , ‘ I do n't know why I do n't just terminate your employment and get rid of you ! ’ |
| 11 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |
| 12 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ Mind telling me , sir , why you did n't just wait in the twenty-minute car-park ? |
| 14 | That 's why you do n't just get a print-out every month from us ; you get a set of charge forms . |
| 15 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
| 16 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 17 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 18 | Of course , they are being treated with the contempt they deserve and you have to wonder why they do n't just get a life … |
| 19 | I do n't know why they do n't just open the gates and let us all out now . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know why they do n't just keep the to- bloody-gether . |
| 21 | why they do n't just put a screen up |
| 22 | ) I f he 's that frightened , though , I do n't know why he does n't just throw it out . |
| 23 | He knew he would n't be able to and now , as he swung himself out of bed , Ray Plummer wondered why he had n't just sat in front of the television until the time came . |
| 24 | He wondered , more than once , why he did n't just turn round and go home . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's a bit of a loner , ’ Quincx replied , unsure why he did n't just tell Leila his suppositions . |