Example sentences of "just [to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad I told you now … it 's worth it just to see the look on your face . ’ |
| 2 | The bruised genitals were almost worth it just to see the look on his enemy 's face . |
| 3 | It 's worth having one just to see the expression on your enemy 's face as the Giant jumps up and down on his cherished troops . |
| 4 | And just to see the war on her , people constantly questioning her ability … ‘ |
| 5 | I have found that as much as £2.50 needs to be spent just to obtain the outlook for the next day . |
| 6 | Six shots just to frighten the crew of The Sandhopper ? |
| 7 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 8 | Right , er Liz would you do an just to receive the information on India and look through . |
| 9 | Just to hear the sound of his own deep voice booming out across the water made the long , lonely day seem worthwhile . |
| 10 | But predominating over the entire emotional range was a pervasive charge of mercantile curiosity as to how much the whole thing had cost and how many bottles of the stuff they would have to sell just to recoup the cost of the launch . |
| 11 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 12 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 13 | And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau . |
| 14 | Just to put the coffin into the house , the would n't have to take a window out to put the coffin in |
| 15 | It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it . |
| 16 | All Greek states needed olive oil , not just to do the work of modern soap and artificial light , but as the equivalent of fat in the cooking and preparation of food ( butter was for barbarians ) . |
| 17 | Their mission was less ambitious than the day before : just to clear the air over the battlefield . |
| 18 | The woman represented on the pages of Penthouse is depicted , as I have said , as a subject who desires to be object : she appears to want just to satisfy the desire of the man who gazes at her as he masturbates . |
| 19 | ‘ Just to satisfy the curiosity of your brother 's mistress ? |
| 20 | Just to keep the wolf from the door . |
| 21 | Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin . |
| 22 | Finally , just to document the shift in concern about corporate crime , Clinard and Yeager state that : |
| 23 | The simple fix for this — and for the amounts shown in columns F and so on — is just to format the range of durations and projects ( i.e E5 … |
| 24 | Well jus just to lighten the mood for a moment and to go along with high-falooting words here are some |
| 25 | Just to change the subject from the Rocky debate for a while , does anybody know what ever happened to Aidan Butterworth ? |
| 26 | it , there 's no point in re-issuing perfectly good documents just to change the name on them . |
| 27 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 28 | Perhaps the discussions of the Falangists , Carlists and Alphonsines envisaged Italian mediation not just to end the war in the north , but to end it everywhere , and to install a new regime under Italian tutelage . |
| 29 | ‘ When he get 's going it 's like striking gold just to get the service from him . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just to get the feel of your personality . |