Example sentences of "[pron] just have " in BNC.

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1 While on holiday in Portugal I saw a conifer that looked so magnificent I just had to photograph it .
2 I thought I just had a voice . ’
3 I just had to supply three bikes .
4 It cost just over £1,500 , which was about three times my budget , but I just had to have it .
5 I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs .
6 I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him .
7 I just had to leave him alone .
8 I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze .
9 I just had to say ‘ Stop ’ .
10 Then when I reached the Mess , you letter was waiting for me , and it made me happy and sad at once , and I just HAD to write you a note , though I ca n't post it tonight .
11 I just had n't enough evidence to bring the case to court . ’
12 But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’
13 When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes .
14 I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset .
15 I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened .
16 It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings .
17 Apparently not bleeding to death , or considered worthy of priority , I just had to wait my turn .
18 I just had to get away , that 's all . ’
19 Up until the solo I just had to think constantly as I was playing .
20 It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape .
21 I just had no idea what he was doing , how he could get those sounds .
22 I just had to share my experiences .
23 I just had no fucking choice .
24 but I just had to look at them , that was enough .
25 Perhaps I just had n't noticed before , but now that I did , it seemed that funerals , and allied subjects , were very much the in thing .
26 ‘ But when I found out about his background , I just had to blow it out of the water .
27 ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify .
28 ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’
29 I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity .
30 I just had to be patient , it was one of those things .
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