Example sentences of "[prep] us just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , I do n't think they came after us just to get their little fee . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 3 | ‘ There are a group of us just down the platform , come and join us . ’ |
| 4 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 5 | It 's something most of us just dream about . |
| 6 | I put it in inverted commas , because many of us just do different kinds of non-waged work at the weekends , or work at providing leisure facilities . |
| 7 | When it comes to the detail of everyday life most of us just muddle through somehow , but Dennis was a Platonist . |
| 8 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Some of us just a little . |
| 10 | The rest of us just dabble in it . |
| 11 | ‘ One of us just had a lucky escape , ’ she said , turning abruptly so that he would n't see the smile on her face . |
| 12 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 13 | The rest of us just had knowledge . |
| 14 | and those in advantageous positions , the rest of us just do n't count . |
| 15 | ‘ She invited my friend ; we … the rest of us just tagged along . ’ |
| 16 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 17 | It was really interesting to hear from a personal view , as well , actually , you know , I mean rainforests are to most of us just something we see on the television or we see pictures , it 's sort of a rather romantic idea , or a mythic idea , it 's lovely to talk to someone who 's got a much more overall view of the whole problem . |
| 18 | This fact was disastrous to us , as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip , with the minimum of emergency rations , and we had eaten most of this . |
| 19 | ‘ Too much pressure is being put on us just because of the tradition of the Welsh No 10 jersey , ’ he said . |
| 20 | We may not like or respect our superiors , for example , but they will have power over us just because they occupy a position above us in the organisational hierarchy . |
| 21 | Crilly is contemptuous of Henry , but the latter sits beside us just the same , not buying a drink but sniffing and staring dully out of eyes deadish and glazed . |
| 22 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 23 | She writes a letter to us just this morning — she is ill , she can not sing tonight ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The boys at Langley do n't do much talking to us just at the moment . |
| 25 | That brought it home to us just what we were involved in . ’ |
| 26 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 27 | ‘ If it could come for us just a little way away I would n't mind , ’ Gurder quavered . |
| 28 | ‘ It does n't mean new jobs but its good news for us just the same . ’ |
| 29 | Well for us just going here it 's thirteen pound it cost me . |
| 30 | we shall have to ring er the grand parents cos they wanted a copy , we 're supposed to get a free copy of the magazine we think , but they photocopied that for us just for fun |