Example sentences of "just [conj] [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 2 | He had stopped stealing , or , rather , Emmie thought he had : sometimes she wondered if it was just that she was n't keeping a proper watch on him . |
| 3 | It 's just that you were n't saying a lot . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Just that I was rather hoping we might have achieved that long before then . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 6 | it 's just that I 'm never gon na get to up to . |
| 7 | It 's not as if I 'm going to run off and have affairs with them just because they 're physically appealing . ’ |
| 8 | She sternly reminded herself that she was n't going to fall in love with the wrong man again just because she was sexually attracted to him , and she was never going to get married again . |
| 9 | Once , just because I was n't wearing any knickers — and he used to love it in Nice . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ JUST because I was n't interned in 1981 does n't mean I 'm not a Polish patriot too , ’ fumed a member of the Karczmiska Communist party committee . |
| 11 | You 're takin' advantage just because I 'm near crippled . |
| 12 | And he looked in quite good form did Bob and he did n't look as though he had too many worries and then this happens and you wonder just whether it was n't premeditated rather than in haste . |
| 13 | So she needs the baby to do that and at that point once her milk production schedule is under way as it were , at that point when , just before she 's about to start giving them , then she should test the baby because that 's the big energetic cost to her . |
| 14 | A month later , just before he was about to set off on his journey ‘ into the interior by way of Namoi , Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin in Hobart of his progress so far : ‘ After spending a fortnight in the lowland brushes I proceeded to the upper districts and the Liverpool ranges whence I have just returned having made several discoveries of new species both of Birds and Quadrupeds , of the latter I believe I have two new kinds of Kangaroo . ’ |
| 15 | Put oil into a clear glass bottle , then add spikes of lavender flowers , picked just as they are about to open . |
| 16 | The saucy six RUN their hands up the men 's legs just as they are about to make a vital shot . |
| 17 | ‘ What happens is that just as they are about to speak , they take a quick breath , ’ explains Angela Caine . |
| 18 | Just as they were about to go down it , the door opened . |
| 19 | And just as they were about to leave , as if to make a grand exit of it , O kissed Boy again , very publicly . |
| 20 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 21 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 22 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 23 | Just as they were about to explode with rage the head of the agency appeared . |
| 24 | Then , just as we were about to give up , the dogs picked up a scent . |
| 25 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 26 | Just as we were about to reach ecstatic heights . |
| 27 | Just as we were about to paddle along the once road we heard a shout from Matthew 's mum for us to go and collect her . |
| 28 | Just as we were about to send someone round to check his milk bottles on Monday , he walked into the office . |
| 29 | Benjamin gripped my wrist and nodded but , just as we were about to step into the boat , he clapped his hands together . |
| 30 | He might come round a drainhole cover just as you 're about to pass him . |