Example sentences of "just [vb base] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just put not paid and keep going till the end of the year . |
| 2 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 3 | Just try not to do anything silly — please , for your own sake . ’ |
| 4 | I just do not want to do P E ! |
| 5 | They are not lazy , they just do not think in the free-flowing goal-oriented way that the ‘ butterflies ’ do . |
| 6 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 7 | Trespassers and vandals just do not expect to be brought to book by passengers on a train . |
| 8 | Trespassers and vandals just do not expect to be brought to book by passengers on a train . |
| 9 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 10 | Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ? |
| 11 | We just do not feel that it is appropriate that this whole area should now be run from London . |
| 12 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 13 | So you , you just do not do this . |
| 14 | They just do not taste as nice . |
| 15 | I have a number of staff who just do not see , that all of this is generated by them . |
| 16 | I just do not see that any logic can be applied in this process at all . |
| 17 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 18 | What if one day you just do not have time ? |
| 19 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 20 | May , 1982 , ‘ The Argentinian air force has the latest attack aircraft and missiles , which we just do not have . |
| 21 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 22 | you just do not have enough time , |
| 23 | The masses just do not have the information or expertise to interpret social problems , let alone to propose solutions for them . |
| 24 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 25 | Channell remembered a curious phone call from him — not an everyday occurrence , and Channell was on respectful tenterhooks — — in which the president began : ‘ I just do not understand Tip O'Neill . |
| 26 | I just do not understand that girl . ’ |
| 27 | I just do not understand at all . ’ |
| 28 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 29 | The Racal twins : their share prices just do not add up Outlook . |
| 30 | That there is no popular opposition is testimony not only to how successful they have been , but also to the fact that there appears to be simply no desirable alternative : the British just do not like their politicians enough to want them made head of state . |