Example sentences of "just [vb base] [prep] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just tend to be more intense in stepfamilies . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 3 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
| 4 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 5 | It 's as if they think I 'm really Firmin and then from time to time I just pretend to be this white man called Charlie . |
| 6 | I just wan na be absolutely sure that you have n't made some terribly dramatic changes in your lifestyle which are not justified by what we 've done . |
| 7 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 8 | You do n't have to be witty or attractive or intelligent , you just have to be there with people for the time you 've stipulated . |
| 9 | You just have to be there when he needs you , for practical as well as emotional help . |