Example sentences of "just [vb infin] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 2 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 3 | Do you build a picture in your head before you play anything or do you just jam around over the backing track and wait for something good to happen ? |
| 4 | I could just walk around till morning and then go to the Committee office first thing — ’ |
| 5 | After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine . |
| 6 | And are these , all these peop people you 're telling me about they would just walk around and sleep wherever they could ? |
| 7 | So , if everybody selects the text that they wan of their document and we 'll just play around with it show you what a mess you can actually create using these formatting keys ! |
| 8 | But as to advice — well , do n't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd just sit around a table and write it together . |
| 10 | If , when you arrive at the interview you find you are early or there is a delay , do n't just sit around allowing tension to build up inside you . |
| 11 | We 'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad 's pipe . |
| 12 | Do you just sit around and wait for inspiration ? ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps he can just sit around and score . ’ |
| 14 | We 'll just sit around watching the men . |
| 15 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 16 | Yet actors here think they can just sit around and wait for jobs . |
| 17 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do n't you just turn around , get back in that pathetic jeep of yours and go home ? ’ |
| 19 | Because even if somebody said I would like that training if it 's not available you ca n't just turn around and say well tough it 's not available you ca n't |