Example sentences of "just [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Just picked for the first trial .
2 Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time .
3 I 'm just looking for the biographical summary Ellis has given me .
4 Christie 's have got it and they 're just waiting for the right sale .
5 The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over .
6 Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress .
7 She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable .
8 I just look for the obvious first . ’
9 Just look for the red sashes .
10 He does n't just hope for the best in other people — he genuinely believes in it .
11 Well we will just hope for the best , he 's not going up there so that 's one less .
12 He was just losing for the third time when Celia walked back in , Mitch behind her .
13 so if you just go for the two
14 From the responses just deduced for the first three Chebyshev orders it may be appreciated that , for all orders , the transfer function ripples between unity and in the pass band .
15 You put those , you ai n't got oh no , fair enough just play for the one five P then .
16 The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry .
17 I did not really know what to expect away from the National Health Service and my mum , and so , armed with a small library of books and the good wishes of a Jamaican midwife at Homerton hospital , I just hoped for the best .
18 In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in .
19 I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area .
20 There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best .
21 ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come .
22 This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best .
23 To see this , imagine repeating for a second country the process just described for the first .
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