Example sentences of "just [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just travelled on a train that has had its inside scraped and engraved with the upside-down , sideways , capitals language of fanatics of the football game . |
| 2 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |
| 3 | We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look . |
| 4 | The small-ad columns of Scam magazine are full of remote-control hookers who just sit by a telephone all day for money , like Ossie Twain . |
| 5 | You 're not well enough , you just sit in a chair there 's some cake in the tin if he wants a bit of cake ! |
| 6 | I felt scared that I would be seen as crazy — that I might even go crazy : that I would begin to see little green men , jump off a tower in the belief I could fly , or just sit in a corner humming ‘ Om ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Just sit in a corner and appear thoughtful . |
| 8 | Daphne Du Maurier in her The Rebecca Notebook says she will , when in France , just sit in a cafe and let the conversation or the attitudes of the people at nearby tables gradually impinge . |
| 9 | I I do n't want to run out there just to sit in a house |
| 10 | In deck shoes , casual close-fitting denim Bermudas , and black polo-shirt , his hair tousled as if he 'd just jumped off a boat , he looked very large and male and intimidating . |
| 11 | Well , she just asked about a bed , so I told her that we were |
| 12 | Well she just asked about a bed so I told her that |
| 13 | Questions should be formulated with a definite purpose and not just asked as a matter of course . |
| 14 | Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge . |
| 15 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How can we just throw in a lad who has not played for so long ? |
| 17 | It was true , it had the feel of truth : the woman had n't just fallen over a cliff . |
| 18 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 19 | ‘ We just flies in a room , ’ he liked to say , moving quickly across the ruins of daily life , plane crashes , train wrecks , matricide , infanticide ; then , after swatting half of humanity , he 'd lower his voice and whisper , as if imparting a secret , ‘ We just flies , that 's all . |
| 20 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 21 | ‘ Just stopped for a look at the map , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 23 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
| 24 | She just goes for a walk . |
| 25 | The four of us ( Kev , Mark H , Kirsty , and me ) wanted to go , but copped out after we got soaked just queueing for a burger outside the ground . |
| 26 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 27 | Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise . |
| 28 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 29 | However , it should not just act as a check-list but should relate facts about a country to the expatriate 's new life style . |
| 30 | Yeah well if , it 's a stupid way of doing it when you 've got a boiler that 's heating up , you can just wait on a bit |