Example sentences of "[pers pn] did n't just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't just wake up one morning and say ‘ Oh gee , I ca n't get in for a facial — I might as well have a baby ’ . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't just wannabe put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't just fall over , I fainted . |
| 5 | I did n't just wan na be put in a chair , given some lyrics to read and say ‘ that 's it . ’ |
| 6 | " I did n't just let her send me to bed — I wanted to go to bed . " |
| 7 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 8 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 9 | ‘ Mind telling me , sir , why you did n't just wait in the twenty-minute car-park ? |
| 10 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 11 | You did n't just pluck those adjectives out of thin air . |
| 12 | In fact , she did n't just feel like groaning — the frustration and worry she felt at the moment were enough to make her want to scream blue murder ! |
| 13 | She did n't just switch off the television during love scenes in a film , for instance , but even if a scantily clad woman was shown on a beach or something . |
| 14 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |
| 15 | She did n't just mean like a misplaced person , floating loose in society . |
| 16 | She did n't just pin them up on her walls , these women , she studied them . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what I keep asking myself — because she did n't just leave . |
| 18 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 19 | ‘ How do you know she did n't just let him die , knowing he belonged to me ? ’ |
| 20 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We did n't just write for information as to what National Parties |
| 23 | We did n't just have one or two but several , all over the place . |
| 24 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 25 | They did n't just go in twenty three years ago as somebody suggested . |
| 26 | ‘ They did n't just outplay us a bit — it was a lot . |
| 27 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 30 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |