Example sentences of "just [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 2 | Shopper Richard Snow , 37 , of Clifton , said : ‘ Assistants noted expensive items like bottles of booze and then just guessed on the rest . |
| 3 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | You ca n't just knock on the door and ask for him . |
| 7 | She 's only six , I said yes we 'll just knock on the door and say I 'm Lisa I 've come to tea |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 10 | Just heard on the World Service that Leeds lost 2–1 at Norwich . |
| 11 | Just heard on the Radio 5 sports report that Wilko has denied a rumour that Sheff . |
| 12 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ All he does is sit at the front window looking out or just sits on the bench on a sunny day like Monday . |
| 15 | Now whether it had got there by mistake we never knew but there was no question she was absolutely just dismissed on the spot . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | I just concentrate on the fact that Maisie is fine at the moment . |
| 18 | Be aware of the organisational context of work and not just concentrate on the job itself ( Herzberg ) . |
| 19 | I just got on the ferry . |
| 20 | He just got on the horse and launched off into space , landed in the lake and he 's swimming it out . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Just checking on the claret , ’ he boomed as he came back . |
| 23 | So I just sleep on the floor . |
| 24 | But the easy way , as I say , is to just concentrate on the man hours . |
| 25 | Can I just concentrate on the binder . |
| 26 | Er , and the other thing , just to comment on the programme . |
| 27 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 28 | er The ransom story may , may have come from er a source er possibly a Hezbalar source er trying to latch on to the , basically to the er the , the thoughts of freedom and just to jump on the bandwagon . |
| 29 | So , that cloud will move out of the way but yet another lump of thick cloud is just appearing on the left of the screen to pose more problems for tomorrow . |
| 30 | And we could n't You could n't just swim on the surface because if you let any part of your body above the water for any length of time , I mean it just burnt . |