Example sentences of "just [pron] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Just what I said . |
| 32 | ‘ Just what I said . |
| 33 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 34 | ‘ That 's just what I said to Mr Yarrow . |
| 35 | It 's just what I said before . |
| 36 | Yeah , that 's just what I said . |
| 37 | That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ? |
| 38 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 39 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 40 | It seemed an eternity before Dad arrived home at one o'clock and he hardly had time to get indoors before I blurted out just what I had discovered . |
| 41 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 42 | Yes but you tend not to get recycling of housing land of housing , you tend to get recycling of housing land , new housing land from outworn industries , nonconforming use , that type of erm recycling is just what I had in mind . |
| 43 | Just what I want , ’ said the man . |
| 44 | Indeed as you watch drama on television you often think " That 's just what I want for tomorrow 's lesson . " |
| 45 | Then I heard the monster 's voice : ‘ It pleases me that you have decided to live , because that is just what I want . ’ |
| 46 | This is just what I want to hear . |
| 47 | ERIC Clapton closed his blues night with a touching version of a Bessie Smith classic , but as he sang ‘ Makes no difference what I do/Some folks will criticise/I 'm gon na do just what I want to do ’ , it seemed as if he was anticipating his reviews . |
| 48 | And that night of course in The Bar we were all saying , oh god when she jumps into the truck , how fabulous was that , it just makes you want to cheer ; and Boy thought again , well that is how life is , that is how I feel , that is how I feel when I 'm leaving the bar with my husband for the night , my husband-to-be , that 's just what I think when I 'm getting into his car , Goodbye Father , Goodbye . |
| 49 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 50 | It 's just what I think . ’ |
| 51 | Now you can see just what I say . |
| 52 | ‘ When I use a word ’ , Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone , ‘ it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ When I use a word ’ , Humpty Dumpty said , ‘ … it means just what I choose it to mean , neither more nor less ’ ( Lewis Carroll — Alice Through the Looking Glass ) . |
| 54 | ‘ When I use a word , ’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone , ‘ it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less ’ — so what does ATM stand for ? |
| 55 | But the tendency of such an argument is in the direction of complete relativism , or an entirely arbitrary nominalism , of the type represented by Humpty Dumpty in Alice through the Looking-glass : " " When I use a word " , Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone , " it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more or less . " " |
| 56 | It turned out to be just what I needed . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ I spent nearly three seasons at Oakwell and it was just what I needed after City had killed my confidence , ’ said Beresford . |
| 58 | It was just what I needed to do the job of calf muscle for Jimbo . |
| 59 | He is just what I needed for my tennis and for my life . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ This is just what I needed , Pat . ’ |