Example sentences of "[conj] he [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends say the flaxen-haired singer is thinking about recording the B 52 's Rock Lobster hit but we reckon that he 's just a shellfish kind of a guy |
| 2 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 3 | Nobody should , for the simple reason that he 's just another rock singer . ’ |
| 4 | But since the alternative is that he 's just a banana-brain who makes things up , he 's got a natural bias towards proving a conspiracy — has n't he ? |
| 5 | He , he 's trying to make , he , he 's making him , you aggressive is n't he and I would say that he 's just thinking it 's low if I 'm going and this guy because , you know |
| 6 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
| 7 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 8 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 9 | Heseltine 's reluctance to fight an open campaign for the leadership and his determination to maintain the pretence that he is just another loyal backbencher is characteristic of his political style . |
| 10 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |
| 11 | And it 's obvious that he is just crazy about you , honey . |
| 12 | ‘ A problem for Falconer is that he is just on the way back . |
| 13 | Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . |
| 14 | That 's how serious we are and although Mr er has to give his little laugh but I hope that he is just as much serious er particularly now that the political realities are that we will have a way forward , of not only supporting the delivery and management of community education services in that particular area but a clear focus has now been given , hopefully after this amendment er has been carried to the education authority . |
| 15 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 16 | When Lamb played five balls of an over defensively and then ran two off the last , it was clear that he was just settling for his hundred , and since Terry immediately succumbed Lamb was criticized for exposing him , rather than trying to keep the strike . |
| 17 | Could n't he see that he was just organizing her even more ? |
| 18 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 19 | On August 6 … he reported to an officer in London and was told that he was just in time to catch the 3.06 p.m. train to Bletchley where he would be met by someone . |
| 20 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 21 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
| 22 | He was an Alsatian/Labrador cross and Dawn , perhaps because she could see that he was just a big , overweight softie and no threat whatsoever , dropped her defences and began to relax in his company . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality . |
| 24 | While he had a fearsome reputation , Diana instinctively felt that he was just lonely . |
| 25 | Ca n't you see that he was just worried that you would betray some of the organization 's secrets in a moment of passion ? |
| 26 | God help me , how do I know ? ) that he was just going to tell her . |
| 27 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 28 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 29 | Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising . |
| 30 | He knew that he was just awaiting Stok 's signal . |