Example sentences of "just [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 2 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 3 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 4 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 5 | In fact it might just finish him for good ! ’ |
| 6 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 7 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 8 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 9 | Can I ask to share cos can you just share one for signed copies . |
| 10 | no you just use it for that and I 'm not going anywhere else |
| 11 | Well yeah , and yes they 've just asked them for forty grand more have n't they ? |
| 12 | Just call us for more details about the group , and their next meeting , which is on July the sixteenth . |
| 13 | Yeah , you just do it for one bloody night do n't you ? |
| 14 | I just bought one for that twenty erm that twenty four inch I 've bought , he was |
| 15 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 16 | He 'd just hit me for two huge sixes , then slapped me savagely through the covers . |