Example sentences of "just [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I thought people would just laugh and criticise me but they seem to like it my singing . |
| 3 | She 'd just laugh and say summat like that . |
| 4 | Next morning she simply would not accept they were still trembling all over but would just nod and say , ‘ Oh yes , I can see you 're much better , luv . ’ |
| 5 | You could n't just make and unmake people at will without working at it . |
| 6 | You wo n't put him off really , I think he 's just got a great a , he 's not , just got a great appetite I think , he 'll just eat and eat and eat |
| 7 | ‘ Well , let's just eat and relax , ’ said Jay . |
| 8 | I do n't want it , I 'm not here just to go and collect trolleys for four hours , and the get really pissed off with it . |
| 9 | But it would be nice just to go and have a quick check . |
| 10 | One of the things I do recall , Command in its wisdom used to send some of its very senior people to spend a period — not to fly mind you — but just to see and taste the scene at an operational station . |
| 11 | I TRAVELLED 350 miles the other weekend just to see and photograph ‘ Blue Peter ’ on the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps even that is preferable to thinking she could just disappear and let us think she was dead . ’ |
| 13 | just to try and cope with it |
| 14 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 15 | like it you know , you , you can spend a lot of bloody money just to try and improve |
| 16 | ‘ Would you mind if I followed you back — just to try and see if anybody else is trying to ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 18 | Well I suppose it 's it 's just to try and find out different opinions on on different wars and things like that . |
| 19 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 20 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 21 | Well , he would just chop and chop and chop and chop |
| 22 | You ca n't just wait and expect him to come to you . ’ |
| 23 | But that does n't mean you should just wait and hope . |
| 24 | Let's just wait and see what he wants . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Let's just wait and see what the critics have to say , ’ Josh returned drily , but he was grinning broadly , clearly delighted . |
| 26 | ‘ But we will have to just wait and see . ’ |
| 27 | Let's just wait and see . |
| 28 | Shall we just wait and see ? ’ |
| 29 | Erm I think we 'll just wait and see what he does . |
| 30 | We shall just wait and see now . |