Example sentences of "be just [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think the knobbly wheels are just to make it grip the ground better , ’ said Dorcas , his voice sounding a long way off .
2 Well the first few levels are just to get you used to the game , but , the other 100 levels will test you to your limit with the addition of elevators , boiling acid , lasers , lava acid and anti-grav .
3 you 're just inviting me to walk into your house ?
4 if you do n't if you 're just lost you feel daft do n't you .
5 ‘ But the council 's so embarrassed about that one that they 're just leaving them to put it right as quietly as they can .
6 I mean if you 're into the hit , you 've got to inject then , otherwise you 're just using it to keep the turkey away .
7 You know , they 're just , they 're just waiting you know , sort of Others are like on the ball almost too much .
8 We 're just giving them tips to make them more relaxed .
9 they 're just watch it come in , drill the cage , the cage turns and comes in .
10 That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ?
11 They 're just starting you see them more it would be nice to have them but you know .
12 I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap .
13 It ca n't be just figures it has to be some sort of er summation does n't it as well or not ?
14 He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’
15 I 'm just thinking you have written proposing you 've got the file in front of the client , the job is dead and gone and never going to come back , do you have to file that lot away somewhere ?
16 Well I 've got the dimensions here so I can I 'm just thinking you see , I may persuade the society to do a deal of free stands facing or something like this .
17 I 'm just thinking I 've got these on the wrong horizontal scale .
18 I mean the communication strategy for this whole thing has got to be sorted out and , you know , we want , the leader wants staff involvement , public involvement in it erm , and erm , but I 'm just telling you advance on what 's gon na be told .
19 You 'd be talking anyways would n't you so I 'm just taping you talking .
20 We do we will , I 'm just saying we do wan na get into cocktail and
21 Yeah , but , but I 'm just saying they reckon on this , its like , they had a little chart , its either fair , good or excellent and like all the others there was like vision and wear and stuff and the vision of that erm , durability and vision capabilities were excellent on the , on the erm
22 No no no Bryn I 'm just saying you know , the reason the meetings are going on
23 ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’
24 Yeah I mean I do n't know if I , I do n't , I 'm not saying I could I 'm just saying I bet if you had all that pressure then you would think of it differently .
25 Maybe I 'm just saying I wish we had n't done the things that went wrong — old men think like that kit themselves along .
26 I 'm just saying it did jolly well .
27 Oh I 'm just having it cut .
28 Good , I 'm just checking you see , making sure there all there are they , all present and correct ?
29 If I 'm looking for anything I prefer to shop in , but if I 'm just browsing I do n't mind going like out of the town , down to or up to for a day but , if I 'm looking for something particular I prefer to stay in cos I know where to go .
30 ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice .
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