Example sentences of "[subord] i just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so , rather than me just do some boring stuff there . |
| 2 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 3 | When you backshift it 's like the chain 's come off so I just use the rear brake to settle the suspension and stop the rear end from going crazy . ’ |
| 4 | I knock on her door , but she do n't say nothing , so I just push it open . |
| 5 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 6 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 7 | I do n't really want to get involved in anyone else 's problems and I do n't want to be the cause of anyone else 's , so I just lay low . |
| 8 | Shortly after the start I had problems with Gerhard 's oil all over my visor , so I just drove my taxi home to take third place . ’ |
| 9 | It hurts too much to keep my eyes open , so I just sit there trying to concentrate . |
| 10 | I try rubbing them , but I 'm too tired to do that for long , so I just stick them back in my pockets . |
| 11 | There are tall black iron gates but they 're hooked open so I just drive through and up a drive of pink bricks to the door . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you ca n't really define good humbuckers any more , so I just sent the Seymour Duncans which are based on the originals , made the exact same way that the original humbuckers were . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They were n't stopping , so I just took the mood down and told them I never knew any of them back in the days of groups like Dynamic 3 . |
| 14 | I 've been left out of previous games , so I just took the disappointment with me . |
| 15 | Then one day a visitor called and gave me his card , so I just took it and gave it to the master in the drawing room . |
| 16 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 17 | ‘ I read that Malcolm had a plan , so I just let him get on with it . |
| 18 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 19 | Because of this I decided it was n't worth going back to school so I just went in to tell everyone and collect some books . |
| 20 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |
| 21 | I 'd have hated to be in your position , a purely physical attraction outweighing personal antipathy , so I just went along with your wishes . |
| 22 | I 'd bought all I needed in Oban , so I just came up here and got myself settled in . |
| 23 | She said to me , ‘ there are n't many jobs for geographers , you should go into something more science-y ’ , so I just drifted into it basically . |
| 24 | I 'd really like some , but I ai n't got no money , so I just make do with warming my hands . |
| 25 | A third friend said , " One time I used to go around with a load of boys who wanted to break people 's windows , so I just left . " |
| 26 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 27 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 28 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ On the sleeve of the first record it was meant to say just Therapy , but I started the logo too far over to the left — and we only had enough money for one sheet of Letraset — I could n't start again , so I just added a question mark to make it fit . |
| 30 | But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’ |