Example sentences of "do [adv] just [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 4 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 5 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 6 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 7 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 8 | Do not just plan a time plus/minus an allowance for wind . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 10 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 11 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 12 | But he did n't just try the handle . |
| 13 | Mother , I sensed , did n't just know a little about Mr Broadhurst , she knew all about him . |
| 14 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 15 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 16 | I do n't know why they do n't just open the gates and let us all out now . ’ |
| 17 | No , I do n't just near the cabbage . |
| 18 | We do n't just deliver a lot of airplanes . |
| 19 | We do n't just want a merging of our unions either . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't just want a reprieve for limestone but for other freight and for passenger services . |
| 21 | And we do n't just want the big bulls . |
| 22 | In other words , we do n't just discard the suggestion . |
| 23 | But when you see it like that you do n't just distort the world , you distort yourself . |
| 24 | Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . |
| 25 | If we go to see a band , we do n't just send an A&R person , one of our product managers or maybe the sales director might come as well . |
| 26 | Do n't just watch the river though because the reed beds behind this point are the haunt of reed bunting and sedge warbler . |
| 27 | And by low temperatures I do n't just mean a few degrees below freezing , but the world close to what scientists call ‘ absolute zero ’ . |
| 28 | I do n't just mean the skin … other things are different … ways , habits , everything ’ . |
| 29 | I do n't just mean the other stuff . ’ |
| 30 | And I do n't just mean the belief that you 're trying to communicate . |