Example sentences of "[noun sg] and 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm going through a stage where erm , I 'm cooking them lunch and they just have a |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We wait a while and they just go away . |
| 13 | It happens a lot that you ring the bell and they just do n't come . |
| 14 | Men have got this thing , that they think it 's their game and they just do n't want women involved ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 19 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
| 20 | All the wisdom of er in , in writing and doctors and everything else says oh it all varies you know some do this and some do that some go straight through in a regal dignified way and they just carry on into relatively old age , you know , smooth as relaxed , nothing to worry about , away . |
| 21 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 22 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 23 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 24 | My mother had a phone call from the foreign office and they just said that er Christine had given birth to a baby girl , er we do n't know much more about it , and that they 're both fine . |
| 25 | Well er just wire and they just laid evergreens you know and one and just them and them and made a circle and a |
| 26 | The problem we 've got with Greenpeace they might not have so much in the way of merchandise and they just have the stickers and |