Example sentences of "did not [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of living within the rigours of a farming calendar these people understood the imperatives of the seasons ; they knew instinctively that the day did not stop just because it was dark , that work might be slack one day but fraught for the next three . |
| 2 | But , in Isabelle Duchesnay 's case , it seems she did not have just Chris 's skating to contend with but his partner on ice Jayne Torvill . |
| 3 | Coltart , despite having a more fruitful year , did not play just for the money either . |
| 4 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 5 | There was only so much she could take , and she did not know just when her breaking-point might come . |
| 6 | She did rub one melanoma causing it to weep but we did n't panic just kept it very clean and it healed perfectly . |
| 7 | Even when their vet warned them that Lizzie was getting on , they did n't realise just how much she had aged . |
| 8 | ‘ Right , let's be having you then , ’ he said , and proceeded to lead his recruits — carryying everything from battered suitcases to brown paper parcels — through the streets of Edinburgh at the double , only to be sure that the locals did n't realise just how undisciplined this rabble really was . |
| 9 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 10 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 11 | But you did n't die just because you were taken to hospital — unless you were old . |
| 12 | I did n't come just to eavesdrop . |
| 13 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 14 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 15 | I did n't know just yet . |
| 16 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 17 | That 's a compliment , of course , but it did n't happen just because I was tall or that I was particularly athletic . |
| 18 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 19 | And they did n't have just one s black stove in the hall to begin with . |