Example sentences of "[conj] we just [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read a book — I do n't know — some metamorphosist or something who went to live on an island — anyway , he believes , he says that there is something — that things are caught in light and space waves , that we do n't die , that it 's all still here , but that we just ca n't see it . |
| 2 | We managed that time , but sometimes they 've wanted things that we just ca n't get hold of . |
| 3 | With the Peace Crusade and the Berlin business , we 've got so many fences to mend already that we just ca n't afford another broken strand . |
| 4 | On the welfare front poverty was rediscovered , and on the all-important economic front there was a growing awareness that we just could not get adequate growth out of our stagnant economy . |
| 5 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 6 | So , we do apologize , but hope you 'll understand er , the delegate particularly , that we just can not ensure that the report has got absolutely everything in it . |
| 7 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 8 | Again , it takes money to stock a shop , so we just ca n't provide these goods any more . ’ |
| 9 | we want so much and we just ca n't do it , it 's frustrating John , I mean |
| 10 | Prices on the rise and we just ca n't wait to move out |
| 11 | Namely that between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty one , ten thousand working days were lost at G C H Q and we just can not run the risk of anything like that ever happening again . |
| 12 | ‘ The plain fact is we are a small independent company , and we just can not afford to spend 2m ( pounds ) on new printing machines . |
| 13 | Everybody 's shop was making a lot of money and we just could n't bear the thought of us all getting like the rest of the industry . |
| 14 | Yeah well we had , we had to abandon that , we brou we brought all our Employment Officers in on a Friday , erm and we just could n't staff the office the rest of the week you see |
| 15 | ‘ The new asking price was way above our heads and we just could n't afford it any more . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They had so much possession and we just could n't get the ball off them . ’ |
| 17 | I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making . |
| 18 | Mummy and I — we love each other of course , but we just ca n't go on living like this any longer . |
| 19 | That the future 's here too , in some sort of space and time-lock , but we just ca n't catch it visually , experientially . |
| 20 | I 've got six but we just ca n't get a win . ’ |
| 21 | Fireman Chris Turner , in charge of the rescue operation , said : ‘ We tried everything we possibly could but we just could n't reach the lads . |
| 22 | I was hoping to buy her a ring for Christmas but we just could n't afford it . ’ |
| 23 | She was a lovely girl and we 're still good friends , but we just could n't live together . |
| 24 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |
| 25 | We could n't do the likes of , we could n't invite Glyndebourne in or the Welsh National Opera because we just could not have that scale of operation on . |
| 26 | Jim said : ‘ We face eviction next spring because we just can not afford that kind of money . |