Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 2 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 3 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 4 | And it 's not , you know , it 's not really much chemistry in it , especially if they do n't ask you f for this er equation but they just give it to you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 7 | I 'm going through a stage where erm , I 'm cooking them lunch and they just have a |
| 8 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 9 | and people who are prepared to discuss the issue but they just do n't come out the door to where erm , the people are that need the information . |
| 10 | The thing is right now I 'm known for this hard , aggressive political coverage and they just keep sending me ; it 's become almost non-stop . |
| 11 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 12 | As we have already seen , physics students made very strong ( hierarchical ) distinctions between physics and chemistry , and between physics and other disciplines — and even between subdivisions in the department itself ; one final-year student noted in B that ‘ on the top floor , one half is theoretical physics , one is experimental physics and they just do n't seem to mix ’ . |
| 13 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 14 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 15 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |
| 16 | It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them . |
| 17 | ‘ We wait a while and they just go away . |
| 18 | Oh no , they could have a sho , er they have , they agree they 've got a say but they just feel that everything is decided so what is the point ? |
| 19 | ‘ Hirst is not for sale at any price but they just do n't seem to want to accept that . |
| 20 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 21 | It happens a lot that you ring the bell and they just do n't come . |
| 22 | Men have got this thing , that they think it 's their game and they just do n't want women involved ! |
| 23 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 24 | He says there 's no end of traffic that comes through — articulated lorries — especially with the new charge on the bridge and they just come this way . |
| 25 | Many of the families I have worked with will ask , for example , how to engage the services of an undertaker because they just do not know . |
| 26 | And I , I really get the impression that , for a while , you know there was , there was just this incredible rush and they just thought oh we 've got to do something , and , and tha that 's what and this idea that you 've got ta be right |
| 27 | Parents may be able to express their concern in the clinic while they just get angry and irritated at home . |
| 28 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 29 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
| 30 | 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 . |