Example sentences of "just [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vi wiggled her toes , wondering if she dared take off her shoes just for five minutes , to ease the throbbing , shooting pain . |
| 2 | So , yes , you should , just for five minutes forget about being a policeman and be a human being . |
| 3 | Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again . |
| 4 | Just for five weeks . |
| 5 | Oh it seems a long way to go just for five days skiing . |
| 6 | in a fortnight , just for five days . |
| 7 | ‘ Like any sportsman we stopped to watch — just for 10 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Chasing 199 , which included a half century from Ireland all-rounder Paul McCrum , the north Belfast side managed just for nine with Chris Davis top-scoring with 35 . |
| 9 | You can not blame a brilliant young player who takes , say , the $200,000 he or she is offered , to play just for one night but it inevitably gives them a totally false impression of life and what their tennis priorities ought to be . |
| 10 | Although collective property auctions take place regularly in London ( often primarily for investors rather than house-hunters ) , in country areas the more typical auction will be just for one house , and as likely as not will take place in a nearby pub or village hall . |
| 11 | Just for one interview , dammit . |
| 12 | Just for one interview , dammit . |
| 13 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 14 | It 's had about ten or twelve names since I 've been going there , though some of them were just for one night , just for a party or celebration , and even then the name was never written up anywhere , you just had to know that tonight it was The Lily Pond , or The Jewel Box , The Gigolo , The Hustler , The Place ( no , I think that was somewhere else ) , Grave Charges ( I loved that one ) — or The You Know You Like It , I remember that year especially . |
| 15 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 16 | Then I have a tuning pedal and I have another pedal just for one song — a dynamic filter . |
| 17 | Relativism asserts the view that everything given — this word being taken in the widest possible sense — can be grasped only in perspectives ; but this proposition itself is supposed to be valid absolutely , not just for one perspective . |
| 18 | ‘ Will you lend him to me just for one night ? ’ |
| 19 | They are disposable heroes and we can be too , just for one day . |
| 20 | Not just for one night , but for several , and to develop an intimate knowledge of the local badger community . |
| 21 | ‘ Forget everything else , just for one evening . |
| 22 | Just for one moment I hope they saw , David and the young man next to him , a radiant woman , generous , strong , sure of her place in the world . |
| 23 | ‘ Just for one hour — let me go ! ’ |
| 24 | The guard said , ‘ OK , for Terry and Abu Tariq , but just for one day . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , Christ , just for one breath ! |
| 26 | ‘ Let us suppose , just for one moment , that we are being over-optimistic , and that Doctor Morris will not reappear , as , of course , we hope and believe he will . |
| 27 | The middle icon is used not just for one option but four . |
| 28 | But not just for one or ten users , but in a scalable manner for a hundred or many thousands of users . |
| 29 | Just take take the bag , put it in and let go and then shut her there for the night , just for one night . |
| 30 | He held her — just for one heart-stopping , breathtaking moment . |