Example sentences of "they [verb] it be just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 2 | The other danger arose from Government departments squeezing a small bill into the Queen 's Speech : ‘ They say it is just two or three little clauses and … it immediately turns out that the process is not nearly as simple as was promised . |
| 3 | It 's what they say it 's just the whole business of looking at lectures for the British National Corpus . |
| 4 | They say it 's just a paper excersise which ignores the real problems in the mental health service . |
| 5 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 6 | And so they went to report to the , to the police but and th I mean they did n't believe them , they thought it was just like birds . |
| 7 | Well they said the witnesses said they thought it was just like an older brother a younger brother . |
| 8 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 9 | They said it was just a racing accident . |
| 10 | They said it was just a 15-minute nightmare . ’ |
| 11 | They thought it was broken , then they said it was just a bad sprain , but apparently they want to do another X-ray , so I simply do n't know what 's happening . |
| 12 | Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist . |