Example sentences of "[noun] did [not/n't] just [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Troopies did n't just sprout of their own accord . |
2 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
3 | Awareness of the distinction did not just disappear . |
4 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
5 | But tonight , after the dancing and the cheers , Miguelito did n't just slip away . |
6 | The Crown Prosecution Service did not just consider whether a bare prima facie case was enough , but whether there was a proper chance of conviction on reliable evidence . |
7 | Guy Sterne did n't just avoid seeing his family , he did n't like talking about them either . |
8 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
9 | ‘ In my day , ’ she was saying , ‘ New Year 's Eve was a family evening , young people did n't just suit themselves . |
10 | For Hoover did n't just make phone calls , or misuse a limo . |
11 | The Life did n't just fail , it failed spectacularly . |
12 | The biography in the liner notes says that ‘ his output comprises a body of works composed in the last five years ’ : but Mason is in his late thirties now , and his music did n't just appear from nowhere . |
13 | Furniture was the focus of interest but , according to John Hill , from Jeremy of the King 's Road , London , the Americans did not just want good examples of standard items , they wanted something different , with a gimmick or original style . |
14 | I believe that they are extant throughout Europe and that our ancient villages did not just grow up according to the ribbon development and river crossing theory of geography , but conform to a larger , geometric pattern . |
15 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
16 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
17 | Ex-Switchboard volunteers did n't just help to found Lesbian Line . |
18 | But Koresh did n't just take Davidians wives . |
19 | The project did not just aim to find out children 's existing ideas . |
20 | However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) . |
21 | But Seventies soccer star Chris did n't just find it hard . |
22 | Carolingian rulers did n't just receive them as a given : rather , they created , recreated , shaped them for themselves . |
23 | ‘ It 's a pity that Laura did n't just ask Louisa what her secret was — when she saw her , I mean . ’ |
24 | Trucks did n't just set fire to themselves . |
25 | She told me this when I was very small , so I 've always known my real mother did n't just give me away . ’ |
26 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
27 | Well last night 's arctic weather did n't just cause chaos on the roads . |
28 | ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 … |
29 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |