Example sentences of "[verb] just [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear something special would be required to break the deadlock , and Mendonca provided just that when he unleashed his tremendous 25-yard drive past the helpless Miklosko . |
| 2 | But for the moment these designs remain just that : the experts are still trying to sort out the answers that chickens have given them and , until they do , can not finalise a commercial prototype for improved cages . |
| 3 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 4 | She had said just that to Miss Fairgrieves on her first day as governess . |
| 5 | Indeed McLeish reflected , that encapsulated the trouble with Tristram — everything that he could do , Perry , two years his senior , could apparently do just that bit better . |
| 6 | The elvish song which follows immediately on the ‘ Walking Song ’ indeed says just that , though probably few readers make the connection straight away . |
| 7 | Having done just that half way through this contest which was judged on time in the first round , she had an agonising wait to see whether anyone would catch her . |
| 8 | There was a widower , two doors away , whose garden had done just that : he never touched it , and grass grew feet thick all over it , and weeds flourished , and roses climbed the hedge , unpruned , and ramped across the soil . |
| 9 | Two of London 's most strapped have done just that : Brent has pushed rates up by 30% , Haringey by 56% and its council rents by even more . |
| 10 | Making things which look just that bit better is so easy , it 's worth a little extra trouble and will surely take you out of the learner stage . |
| 11 | Bradstone , leading producers of high quality paving and walling products , is pleased to offer out prizewinner the opportunity to do just that in this exciting competition to win a patio worth £3,000 . |
| 12 | Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War . |
| 13 | Well now there 's the chance to do just that while supporting the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 14 | Mr Stark reckons that an emerging generation of academics , disillusioned by the arcane teachings of their forebears , is starting to do just that by tackling many of the dilemmas managers face each day — those which business ethicists have previously side-stepped . |
| 15 | And she set out to do just that by making the little budgie one of Britain 's most popular pets . |
| 16 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 17 | ‘ Our recent re-organisation has positioned us to expand significantly and we aim to do just that ’ said Norman . |
| 18 | Dana threatened to do just that if I did n't ‘ dance attendance ’ ; Garry is easily swayed and still half in love with Dana — I dare not risk it . ’ |
| 19 | Furthermore , the right hon. Member for Finchley had the opportunity to do just that because at that time she had the right of veto . |
| 20 | The argument is certainly persuasive for efficient farming areas , and , according to farm unions in Germany , some farmers there have decided to do just that by not completing the IACS forms and not seeking the subsidies or the controls which are the price of the subsidies . |
| 21 | Plays handled just that : single one-off productions including , strangely enough , opera , which was felt owed more to drama than to music . |
| 22 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 23 | Yet , you may well be doing just that when you write one press release for the former magazine and another on the same subject for the latter because both publications are on your public relations media schedule as targets . |
| 24 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 25 | It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced . |
| 26 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 27 | I also feel just that I am able to contribute next to nothing in terms of time so and I think w we 're almost all in that situation . |
| 28 | Proust , the most admired of all novelists among academics , appears to be saying just that when he writes that ‘ only true paradises are those one has lost ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ What she told us meant just that , even though he was only a boy when she knew him . |
| 30 | Bull Pot of the Witches , by the way , may mean just that , that it was named after a witch or witches that lived in the area . |