Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] just [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you think I ca n't see you just cos you 're behind me . |
| 2 | Mr but like I pretended I had to go and see him not because I had to go and see him just because I did n't wan na go to assembly really ! |
| 3 | He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her . |
| 4 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 5 | He does n't drop them just because they do n't buy . |
| 6 | Yes , that sounded plausible : he would n't take it just because it was offered to him on a plate . |
| 7 | Now if your lad could tell us just where he was , while he was supposed to be at Longner , and better still , bring us a witness to confirm it , that would go far to get him out of the mire . ’ |
| 8 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 9 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 10 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 11 | Find people who will do the job well — do n't pick them just because they are there . |
| 12 | Well they ca n't pick him just because they like him . |
| 13 | You can place him just where you want him . ’ |
| 14 | She would accept it just as she accepted her heartbeat and her pulses . |