Example sentences of "just [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but what I 'm saying is , awareness now , I 'm just slagging off the awareness . |
| 2 | And then you just photocopy from the card , and it 's a nice , and you keep the card , you do n't give that out . |
| 3 | As she did , Claudia realised , pity mixing with sorrow as she remembered that Dana had just parted with the man she loved . |
| 4 | I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever . |
| 5 | Er , how do I get down at all , erm , of course that might not be a worry , you might and just remain in the realm for all eternity . |
| 6 | ‘ People think , ‘ Oh , you just sit in the pub and observe . ’ |
| 7 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 8 | When she 's crying with pain for something like a migraine headache , I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand . |
| 9 | And we would go for walks together or just sit in the garden , talking . |
| 10 | ‘ Why could n't you just stay in the back of beyond ? ’ she said . |
| 11 | She wo n't just stay in the car , she wo n't want to stay in the car when she wakes up cos that 's too boring . |
| 12 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 13 | The test of whether there are unobservable electrons can not be the test just given for the presence of dragons . |
| 14 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 17 | Yanto just gazed into the fire . |
| 18 | After a delightful supper we just tottered across the forecourt of the Savoy Grill into the Savoy Theatre — very intimate — and we saw a nice show . |
| 19 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 21 | You will be telephoned , if you are agreeable , with details of properties just received onto the market . |
| 22 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 23 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |
| 24 | Drill a hole just oversize for the bolt head diameter , about ¼ to ⅜in deep . |
| 25 | But the points just evaporated as the conversion and other penalty chances went wide . |
| 26 | Shopper Richard Snow , 37 , of Clifton , said : ‘ Assistants noted expensive items like bottles of booze and then just guessed on the rest . |
| 27 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 28 | Therapy was aimed at helping the parents establish a more balanced and satisfactory relationship , learning to negotiate rather than lapse into their habitual pattern of attack and withdraw at the same time as providing a reward programme for Luke just to sit on the lavatory . |
| 29 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 30 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |