Example sentences of "just [verb] on a [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 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | He pulls a face as if he 's just sat on a chicken , as Peter Cook has just asked him what 's the most boring job he 's ever had . |
| 6 | Just hold on a minute , now , for this is very interesting . |
| 7 | I 'm coming Bryony , I think she 's shouting now , do n't come downstairs with your trousers round your ankles ooh oh what a clever girl , stand still while I wipe your bot , ooh come here , bendy over , touch your toes , clever girl , down you go , that 's it , what a clever girl , right just hold on a minute , wait a minute , let me put some water in here and then , oh dear |
| 8 | one , two , you just hold on a minute can you , just wait till Mark 's finished , cos it gets a bit confusing cos we get too many people knocking about . |
| 9 | Just hold on a minute ! , just look at all that stuff on there ! |
| 10 | Because you 're not , although you 're using the power space , the power er er of the production line or equipment , they might not be , that might not be what you 're making , you 're just using that kit and you need the supplier of that kit to bring an engineer in and you need to get a part of it , but you want control of that rather than just waiting on a supplier to do it for you . |
| 11 | They came in abundance ; the reason being , I suspect , that there was so much more to do than just lie on a beach , for which , indeed , the first requirement is sun . |
| 12 | Burn more fuel and just travel on a train . |
| 13 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |
| 14 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 15 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 16 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 17 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 18 | You ca n't just go on a trip or something ? |
| 19 | That we just connected on a kind of mental plane . |
| 20 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 21 | Ferguson moved to Kuwait , where he first met and impressed Crosby , who was just embarking on a coaching career . |
| 22 | Since it was very hot they just put on a loincloth , but when they had visitors they might throw on a leopard skin to look more venerable . |
| 23 | ‘ He just chuntered on a bit and then rang off . ’ |
| 24 | Patients in Darlington can wait over a year just to get on a hospital waiting list , Labour 's candidate said this week . |
| 25 | You just work on a plan where that i at the er at the beginning of the day you 're , you 're given your people to watch . |
| 26 | We ca n't just nip on a coach and go somewhere for the day . |
| 27 | Elean:Your stories are very strong on the hostile , uncaring , comtemptuous , apartheid apparatus — for example the traumatic experience for the Black African people just to travel on a train from A to B ; you seem to contrast this , all the time , with the ’ togetherness ’ , the solidarity among the suffering South African people , like in your story , Fud-u-u- , a , where you emphasize this togetherness , especially among the women . |
| 28 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |