Example sentences of "[pron] just [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 2 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 3 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied . |
| 5 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |
| 8 | I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’ |
| 9 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 11 | Okay , I just wanted to be clear we were n't finding an additional list of names of people who are authorised to do this . |
| 12 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 13 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 14 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 15 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 16 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 17 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 18 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 20 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 22 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 23 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |
| 24 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 25 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
| 26 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 27 | THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone . |
| 28 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 29 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe you just want to be big again . |