Example sentences of "just [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I reckon they just mistook it for a runway . |
| 2 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 3 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 4 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 5 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 6 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 7 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 8 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 9 | Can I just borrow you for a few moments ? |
| 10 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 11 | I du n no but I got a wonderful hand look wha I 'll just show you for a start , cos I 'm putting that in the box . |
| 12 | ‘ He can not just divorce you for no reason . ’ |
| 13 | But he was saying you see , what 's happened is the they is n't his he just delivers them for the bloke |
| 14 | I just needed them for a purpose , and that was enough . ’ |
| 15 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 16 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 17 | Th we must be able to learn from this period , particularly a partial austerity mm but these events are sound events in themselves and that we 're not just doing it for the sake of the sponsor or attracting a sponsor and that it 's not , in itself , completely necessary to have a sponsor otherwise the competition would n't exist . |
| 18 | And they 're not just doing it for the money because , you know , if you just sort of give them a mundane task like trolleys for example , they 're banging on the door , you know , when can I get off this , when am I going to get some responsibility . |
| 19 | Just doing it for the week . |
| 20 | Just keep them for the telly then . |
| 21 | Yes , oh aye , aye , just use it for the month Charlie and then , and then in the bucket , do n't keep using it after that . |
| 22 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 23 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 24 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 25 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 26 | Other negatives were Gareth Burnells 's ‘ No , mate , I do n't think there 's any particular dispute over this stretch of the Derwent , ’ and Neil Newton Taylor 's ‘ No , we 're just taking them for a walk' ’ on a picture postcard of Cauldron Snout . |
| 27 | Ah just ask , just ask him for a drop of |
| 28 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 29 | Just glimpsed him for a moment , not to be certain . |
| 30 | Jon sees the key to it all as simply getting out and having a good time : ‘ I just do it for a laugh , basically . |