Example sentences of "just [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
2 | ‘ Doctor , I 'll gladly answer all your questions , if you 'll just answer one of mine . ’ |
3 | No sit still be Just sit still for now please . |
4 | ‘ So , just sit quiet for a moment , there 's a good girl , and then I 'll make us a cup of tea . ’ |
5 | That 's I 've just given this to our Carrie . |
6 | Right , cover up again , come up towards the wrist , if you 've got any more bandage , go round perhaps one more time okay and just make sure at the end of the day that you do n't tie too tightly round the wrist , why not ? |
7 | and just make sure about a few things do n't we on the book one . |
8 | There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’ |
9 | myself so much , that erm nothing bothers me , everything just rides straight across me back |
10 | And I wish to God that would just come back again , now there people would just treat one of our as they did it one of during the war 's years . |
11 | But do n't just treat this as a language exercise . |
12 | I mean , I know it 's something to do with funding but could you just explain that for me ? |
13 | ‘ Ca n't you just explain that to your editor ? |
14 | Can I have that back for a minute and I 'll just explain one of the erm a bit more of the structure of it . |
15 | Now could I ask , if there are any erm matters on there where you have found and error and it 's an error of fact , can I just stress that at this stage ? |
16 | and you just bang those around the place . |
17 | And Arsenal have just fallen flat on their face ! |
18 | I 've just explained that to him . |
19 | We 'll put it 's sign in front of it so we can just make sure of that . |
20 | It may just make one of the down-market dailies and thus please the marketing director , but it is probably not going to sell very much of the product . |
21 | He has an effective slogan in asking the American people : Do you just want more of the same ? |
22 | Erm a few hard facts just to confirm first of all |
23 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
24 | The result in February 1974 was a Labour manifesto that promised ‘ a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families ’ — and only just stopped short of promising to nationalise the country 's leading 25 companies . |
25 | Much of Muskie 's political fame was earned from his leadership in environmental affairs , which was now being eroded not only by Nixon 's proposals but also by a Ralph Nader report on air pollution which strongly criticized Muskie 's role in the past and just stopped short of accusing him of selling out to industrial polluters ( Lundqvist , 1980 ) . |
26 | His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla . |
27 | No okay what you need to do , what I want you to do now is just pick some of these numbers and multiply them together so that you get forty five . |
28 | You just pick three of them . |
29 | A is central heating , C is car parking , D is street car parking , E is special diets catered for , F , tea and coffee making facility , G is television in bedrooms at no extra charge I is for answering and J K , I 've , I 'm , just to go all through this , disabled facilities , L separate M bedrooms available with private telephones in , it 's N , number of bedrooms available with private bathroom and toilet or shower and toilet . |
30 | Now , could I , could I go through , cos I 'd like , I 'd like to at some stage ask you to do an exercise on this just to see first of all how complicated it is and then , at the end , how simple it is . |