Example sentences of "just [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 2 | Many said it was bliss just to sit on the bales of straw and listen to the music . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ No particular place , just to drive for the joy of it , side by side into the rising sun . |
| 7 | Yes , I was very successful in that respect as well that er , my children , I taught them that just to wait till the January sales and they 'd get what they wanted for half the price ! |
| 8 | And just to round off the day the rain stops , the Cleveland cocktail lifts and a pale , weak sun sticks his nose out from behind the clouds . |
| 9 | It 'll be worth putting a couple of pavers on there just to cope with the track of the pa er the wheels going in . |
| 10 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 11 | Er champion of champions we 've , I bought some prizes for the champion of champions , and food er just to go with the trophies er Keith again was our judge and erm knowing that he does n't willingly accept money , he wants to come and do it for nothing erm how many proposed that we buy him something a bottle to take with him , so we bought him a bottle of wine to take with him and er that was the three pound . |
| 12 | Erm , and we had a a little meeting Margaret , Joan and I , just to go through the agenda for today , and we thought that , we th perhaps five was a better number , erm , because we thought Maisie would be on as she does the bookings , but we would n't expect you to do anything else , Maisie , yeah . |
| 13 | Erm just to go over the payments for the car park which has come up actually under community industries and the plants , the total being now for plants it was four hundred and forty four pounds er |
| 14 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |
| 15 | We want people just to go round the floor . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Er , and the other thing , just to comment on the programme . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 20 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |
| 21 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hordes of hostile bicycle-rickshaw drivers would jeer at us — and it became quite hard just to walk through the streets . |
| 24 | The initial experience for any child is just to play with the pieces to familiarise himself with them all and this often takes the form of picture and pattern making — similar to the early use of the other structured apparatus . |
| 25 | ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I ’ m not going to Thailand just to escape from the group , ’ Kate says , still unable to move away from guilt . |
| 28 | I said would it , in order now just to deal with the amendment on my own sir or support Mr at the same time ? |
| 29 | In the Scottish tradition , following upon our Scottish theologian Dun Scottas although not representing him properly , it says that righteousness and moral items are just to do with the will of God . |
| 30 | Just to run to the end of his endurance — and then to go on . |