Example sentences of "just [verb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Now we 've just heard about the fox and it 's coming across into the clearing , then an eye widening deepening greenness and talks about it coming about his own business till a sudden sharp hot stink of fox enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 3 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 4 | I wanted to talk to you about the things that er you 've got from the meetings and to just think about the pricing issues . |
| 5 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 6 | Well I just mentioned about the microphone |
| 7 | erm It 's not easy to give an example that 's brief , because of what I 've just said about the style , but I offer one very short passage here , which might or might not convey what I 'm attempting to say . |
| 8 | They passed four months just wandering about the countryside , pitching their tent , swimming in the numberless ponds that are a feature of the land , and living off game they shot , chickens they snatched , and hand-outs from the rejoic-ing peasants . |
| 9 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 10 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 11 | Otherwise , I 've just talked about the alternative . |
| 12 | Maybe he just heard about the Andrus business and took it into his head to avenge it . |
| 13 | Page 39 tells you more about half board in Hotel Rozos , other things to do , and the fascinating possibilities for exploring classical Greece ; here we just talk about the windsurf facilities . |
| 14 | You just talked about the cleaning people . |
| 15 | He just went about the business of reloading again , breaking open the shotgun and reaching into the pocket of his jacket for more shells . |
| 16 | No , no I 'm not saying , I 'm just talking about the word saturation . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 18 | Just talking about the tea room . |
| 19 | oh and we were jus well we just sort of cha , I was just talking about the weather , she was saying how cold it was . |
| 20 | ‘ I can just write about the hacienda , the mountains , Granada , ’ Maggie pointed out . |
| 21 | He he just moans about the fact of making tea ! |
| 22 | But just think about the time involved . |
| 23 | ‘ Just think about the Bishop . ’ |
| 24 | Well , I think again we can just erm , er , again if we just think about the fact that we did n't write the questions |
| 25 | And he was adamantly against anything changing the pattern of his life , for , as he said , he was having no netty inside , it was n't decent ; and just think about the effect on the sweets and the ingredients that went into their making . |
| 26 | ‘ Connect , ’ screams the gospel , ‘ do n't just talk about the faith , live it and die for it ! ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know what , we can just talk about the language |
| 28 | What makes it so special is the people who live and work there , who do n't just talk about the need for alternative technologies , or even just demonstrate workable alternatives but actually live by them . |
| 29 | He was just thinking about the boy in the Post Office when he fell instantly into a deep sleep . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just thinking about the future . |