Example sentences of "just [to-vb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 2 | He leaned out , perilously askew , just to catch a sight of Edward 's white face at the bottom of the ladder . |
| 3 | And once she 'd had the her arms in the dough , I had to stand by her side just to feed a drop of water gently . |
| 4 | If a husband and wife can only tell each other how uncomfortable they feel about the change , and how odd it makes them feel , not endlessly or every day , but just to give a place to the fact , then they have a good chance of staying on a fairly positive course . |
| 5 | Just to give a flavour of the more joyful side : as a result of so many of us being out and being there , many other women workers , and many young women have come to feel that the time was right for them too , that they too have lesbian potential . |
| 6 | The aim of marking is , of course , not just to assign a number to a piece of work but to give constructive feedback so that the students ' work steadily improves . |
| 7 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 8 | A man who became a shareholder of an insurance company just to pursue a claim of negligence has been lobbying the company 's annual meeting . |
| 9 | Well , he 's just to keep a record of it right . |
| 10 | Then again , addictions to substances that affect different types of synapse can be quite similar — and some people seem to be prone to addiction per se , rather than just to have a weakness for a particular substance . |
| 11 | Erm well perhaps you , you wou would you er let me perhaps er well not let me but perhaps I could ring a few of erm those people just to have a chat with them and perhaps put , you know , talk about the er planning your future exercise with them as well , could you , would you give me some numbers please ? |
| 12 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 13 | Thanking Donal for his kindness , and giving him a friendly hug , she dutifully took the road he indicated — and then Ellie , being Ellie , decided would n't it be nice just to have a peek at the Wicklow mountains ? |
| 14 | it 's ju it 's just to get a look at the other side so that you can see that erm |
| 15 | Right , just to get a bit of where , where did Mao come from ? |
| 16 | Look I 've just remembered , I did take a walk — just to get a breath of fresh air . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The priority is just to get a victory under our belts again . |
| 18 | I 'll probably have a stroll round there just to get a tracksuit for , when Michael was |
| 19 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 21 | This is the price that the British economy will have to pay just to take a look at a Kinnock government . |
| 22 | In many cases when creating this effect , it is not enough just to tie a bow in a piece of ribbon , and you may have to actually create a bow from a piece of material in order to produce the right effect . |
| 23 | ‘ She must have married Uncle Philip just to make a home for them when they were little . |
| 24 | It seems , you know , because Freud did n't actually analyze just to make a generalization about things he knew about some of the people . |
| 25 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 26 | It is no longer adequate just to produce a plan of a church : all walls and elevations need to be examined closely , since most churches are built , developed and extended over a long period . |