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 .
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