Example sentences of "just [vb -s] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boundary-maintaining function just does not stand up as a function of crime or deviance . |
| 2 | The idea of target setting based purely on ‘ doing better ’ without considering what the cost of that doing better is , just does not stand up to rational examination . |
| 3 | The Opposition policy of seeking to stabilise emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 , while keeping the coal industry at its existing size , stopping the use of gas and phasing out nuclear electricity , is the mathematics of Bedlam — it just does not add up . |
| 4 | ‘ It just does n't sit well with me any more . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down . |
| 6 | It just does n't give up . |
| 7 | ‘ When you know there 's a bird that matches it 's description but you know it 's extinct , it just does n't sink in . |
| 8 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 9 | It all seemed to emphasise that , in the era of the All Ireland League , the Senior Cup just does n't matter as much as it used to . |
| 10 | ‘ Just does n't smell right . |
| 11 | I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again . |
| 12 | But it just does n't operate here . |
| 13 | It just does n't add up . " |
| 14 | It just does n't seem particularly logical or rational to me , that you live and strive for a while , then die . |
| 15 | ‘ That just does n't tie in with what I know of you , the way you feel about your mother and your brothers . ’ |
| 16 | Seventeen and a half per cent is something horrible , it just does n't work out to anything reasonable |
| 17 | And unless you 're on the council you ca n't go there and state your case , you 've got to go through someone else , who maybe does n't understand it or does n't have feeling in it , and so it just does n't work really . ’ |
| 18 | I know you need it , the way you read that letter was atrocious Matt if the letter , the word just does n't jump out and tell you what it is , look at the , the words each side of it Christ |
| 19 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 20 | It just does n't look right |
| 21 | It just does n't come up . |
| 22 | Just does n't come out quick mm . |
| 23 | She has gone from having no attention whatsoever , to having lots of it , and she just does n't know how to cope with it . |
| 24 | Just does n't know how to treat someone like Mister Johnny . |
| 25 | He did n't like all those horrible buckets up there , he just does n't know how to … |