Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] just " in BNC.

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1 So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice .
2 You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today .
3 It 's been so impregnated in the child 's mind that she just Well they just could n't they could n't fathom it because he used
4 Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back .
5 What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain .
6 Aung San overcame his plea that he just wanted to go on writing and brought him to Rangoon .
7 Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income .
8 I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country .
9 I was so astonished by the sudden question that I just gaped at him .
10 As he galloped away , Anabelle was filled with such joy that she just could n't help singing …
11 But it 's still right on that , on that turning point , it 's a hundred and fifty years after the John Trevisa theme that we just looked at .
12 The man closes the front door , passes through the hall , and enters the room that I just left .
13 At the er and they have a band on that night that I just called on for the
14 There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to .
15 Locke does suggest , indeed , erm and erm the example that , the rather silly example that I just gave is meant to bring this out , erm that of course those who have only given tacit consent are not full members of that civil society .
16 I think it 's very hard to separate the two , but it 's a big chicken and egg , to say which came first , the social conditions or the furnishings is erm is very hard to say , but they are , I mean like in that example that I just gave , they 're very strongly tied up .
17 I mean that was really my only comment that I just erm heard this lady speaking erm okay she 's got two children and it probably is difficult to keep two children occupied without any children 's programmes , but like you commented , ‘ what did people do before television ’ , and erm I mean I 'm sure erm Rainbow and such , the people who produce those sort of television programmes would understand that keeping the majority of the country erm informed of what was going on was slightly more important than erm having children 's programmes on .
18 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 .
19 awareness that it just stands and bleats and does nothing because it can do nothing !
20 The reason that I just gave , which is the experience of recession .
21 Art is , and always was , the only point — a notion so old fashioned in today 's hyperventilated art world that it just might , if we are lucky , be due for a comeback .
22 Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ?
23 But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen .
24 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 .
25 Well they 're probably just asking you , asking for the answer that I just gave you .
26 She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea .
27 Even though objectively , he had all the strength on his side , and if he 'd only stubbornly insisted , the allies would have had to accept the fourteen points , because there was no way that they just did n't have any erm , any clout really when when finally settled in peace .
28 For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract .
29 In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig .
30 Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon .
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