Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] just [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | In some indefinable way he just added to her restlessness . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 34 | ‘ According to that guy I just spoke to , ’ said Gregson quietly , ‘ Trevor Magee died six months ago . |
| 35 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 36 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 37 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 38 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |