Example sentences of "not [verb] it just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 2 | Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’ |
| 3 | We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) . |
| 4 | The important thing about that Bob is not to accept it just at face value . |
| 5 | It seems a shame not to do it just because of what old Bedwelty said . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not doing it just for you , Ellie , ’ Patsy said , spitting into his hands . |
| 7 | I 'm not doing it just to be difficult . |
| 8 | ‘ Why not try it just this once , ’ Herbert said persuasively . |
| 9 | ‘ But do you mind trying not to get it just yet ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'm not making it just because observation comes before communication , although it does : since before an observable truth can be communicated , someone somewhere must get that true belief — or something from which it can be inferred — by observation . |