Example sentences of "but it just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 2 | it 's the moral , that 's right , and the moral sounds , sounds good does n't it , I do n't know if it is , but it just sounds it I suppose |
| 3 | I like the subject , and I like the composition and so on , but it just loses a bit because of the lack of sharpness so a five for that . |
| 4 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 5 | But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions . |
| 6 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 7 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not really stereo ; it 's the same signal coming through , but it just broadens the sound . |
| 10 | But it just fell into me as I stood there with her . |
| 11 | And I felt it was n't up to them , I did n't have enough experience I wanted to gain some more experience but it just fell away , lapse . |
| 12 | But it just grew out of all proportion . |
| 13 | It tripped on a book and almost went flying , but it just succeeded in remaining upright . |
| 14 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 15 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 16 | Aye cos I tried the prosthesis and I tried the , but it just catches , and then er . |
| 17 | I see it happen but wait , hoping that as usual she will jump out from it , but it just gets worse and she slows almost to a stop . |
| 18 | But it just does n't operate here . |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , ’ says Keith , ‘ if we could plug into a box and get all these sounds , we 'd be doing it , but it just does n't work that way . |
| 20 | I 'm in the middle of a government grant on my house and by the time I get that together and spending money , which I should n't be doing , on junk , y'know , and I want to start a family and that , y'know , and try and be respectable , but it just does n't seem to be available under this health service , this National Health Service , although I do know people who have it prescribed . |
| 21 | but it just does n't want to get too soft because that old hill you know it it does get a big of a drag . |
| 22 | Trying to keep our old boss happy and trying to keep the receivers happy but it just does n't work like that , you ca n't keep everybody happy . |
| 23 | but it just does n't seem to be working very effectively . |
| 24 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 25 | Now it wo n't be that long in your case , but it just goes to show how lengthy the whole thing can be . |
| 26 | but it just goes on and on and on , over what did so and so said , oh no |
| 27 | So each time you want to do something it 's five , displays it and so on tell it to read five but it just fills up it 's memory , it 's little buffer with that much . |
| 28 | but it just knocked the cotton sticks out , just put the piece down , there 's no way I 'm gon na do this , so it does n't matter does it ? |
| 29 | There was a window in her bedroom , but it just looked on to a tiny area and did n't let in much light . |
| 30 | Beasant said : ‘ I thought I had it covered but it just crept through my finger-tips . ’ |