Example sentences of "just [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 2 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 3 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 4 | Describes the clients in a pawnbroker 's shop in a squalid neighbourhood : a harridan , a drunken brute who abuses his pathetic wife , a genteel mother and daughter just becoming inured to poverty , a prostitute , and a drunken old woman ( ‘ Who shall say how soon these women may change places ? ’ ) . |
| 5 | But if , like me , you just want to fall in love with a beautiful island , give Kuta a miss and try the fantastic resorts of Nusa Dua and Sanur . |
| 6 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 7 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to go to sleep . |
| 9 | I just want to go to sleep and forget — forget it . ’ |
| 10 | They just want to stay on cloud nine . |
| 11 | I just want to stay in work enjoying what I do . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't want sympathy from anybody , you just want to suffer in silence . |
| 13 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 14 | It looks ordinary enough … but inside it 's packed with high tech electronics … it 's the work of local man Richard Marshall , who just happens to head of electronics for the Benetton Formula Grand One Prix team , putting some ideas into practice . |
| 15 | No it just seemed to spring to mind . |
| 16 | Toxic drugs can'£t cure anything really , they just hold thinks in check . |
| 17 | So you were just lying listening to music in between the chair and the couch ? |
| 18 | Sorry I 'm going to speak to Dot , I was just going to speak to Dot and I 'm |
| 19 | Well you 've just got to look at section twenty eight , now section twenty five , how like we are being discriminated against how even like |
| 20 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 21 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 22 | We are only just beginning to realize from research just how much this is so . |
| 23 | Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth . |
| 24 | Ronnie Ross : ‘ At the time he came to see me for lessons , groups like The Rolling Stones were just beginning to come into vogue although he was more interested in jazz , and we 'd sit and talk about jazz and jazz musicians quite often . |
| 25 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 26 | It stood four square , its dark red walls half covered with large-leafed Virginia creeper just beginning to change from green to gold and russet colours . |
| 27 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 28 | I just like looking in shop windows . |
| 29 | Get your appetite where you can , just remember to eat at home . ’ |
| 30 | " I just remember feeling at home . |