Example sentences of "just [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ALMIGHTY Allah has vindicated us , ’ Nawaz Sharif told the crowds waiting outside Pakistan 's Supreme Court on May 26th : the court had just reinstated him as prime minister . |
| 2 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 3 | Can all those bracing ‘ think European ’ messages have fallen on completely stony ground , and were Lord Young , Alan Sugar and Sir John Harvey-Jones just wasting their breath and the tax-payers ' money ? |
| 4 | Just wasting our time ! |
| 5 | He 's had me there specifically , so I 'm just wasting my time . |
| 6 | Otherwise you 're just wasting your time . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not just wasting your time here , I take it ? ’ asks his father . |
| 8 | You 're just wasting your time . |
| 9 | I just sell it , I do n't use it . ’ |
| 10 | We just sell it on behalf of our clients . ’ |
| 11 | I knew it was so necessary and just applied myself to doing everything they told me . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , 'cos she 's just altered it . |
| 13 | She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic . |
| 14 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 15 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 16 | Mm and then just photocopy it . |
| 17 | As he had just broken it . |
| 18 | Oh Mi well you 've just broken it ! |
| 19 | ‘ If you 'd just answer my question , I would n't have to search all your rooms . ’ |
| 20 | I mean it just appalled me I think that we are all of us , if you like to a degree , tarred with the same brush are n't we ? |
| 21 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 22 | You just squeeze them out . |
| 23 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 24 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 25 | Well you just squeeze it . |
| 26 | All them years since , and she was a widow and , and she was er ever so nice , lovely home and clean , but the bed was , it , it was n't just flock it were part Taylor |
| 27 | After two years of going to Kenya I 've only just realised what it is you 're supposed to do — walk ! |
| 28 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I think he 'd only just realised himself . |
| 30 | He cocked his head to one side as if he had just realised something awful . |