Example sentences of "just [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " 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 Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented .
4 Shopper Richard Snow , 37 , of Clifton , said : ‘ Assistants noted expensive items like bottles of booze and then just guessed on the rest .
5 The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent .
6 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 .
7 I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front
8 You ca n't just knock on the door and ask for him .
9 She 's only six , I said yes we 'll just knock on the door and say I 'm Lisa I 've come to tea
10 Can I just comment on the lady saying a minor crime , I do n't think any crime is minor when it happens to you
11 Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’
12 The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died .
13 Just heard on the World Service that Leeds lost 2–1 at Norwich .
14 Just heard on the Radio 5 sports report that Wilko has denied a rumour that Sheff .
15 I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor .
16 She do n't help out or nothing — she just sits on the bench , or wanders round looking at things , but I think she likes it .
17 ‘ All he does is sit at the front window looking out or just sits on the bench on a sunny day like Monday .
18 Now whether it had got there by mistake we never knew but there was no question she was absolutely just dismissed on the spot .
19 It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand
20 I just concentrate on the fact that Maisie is fine at the moment .
21 Be aware of the organisational context of work and not just concentrate on the job itself ( Herzberg ) .
22 I just got on the ferry .
23 He just got on the horse and launched off into space , landed in the lake and he 's swimming it out . ’
24 Studies also bear out that people are the most effective disseminators of know-how , and that hardware just dropped on the doorstep is the least effective .
25 I just shouted on an impulse and was very sorry later . ’
26 Just checking on the claret , ’ he boomed as he came back .
27 So I just sleep on the floor .
28 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
29 But the easy way , as I say , is to just concentrate on the man hours .
30 Can I just concentrate on the binder .
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