Example sentences of "[pers pn] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this normal or am I just a good driver ? |
| 2 | Or am I just a moaning old crone ? |
| 3 | Can I just a minute , because I 've got the same feeling . |
| 4 | Yeah on the pensions one er are we a page missing or am I just a page missing ? |
| 5 | Oh I think I just a can of beer or cider , fuck Mark the wind 's killing me . |
| 6 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 7 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ I am genuinely delighted we were able to repay them just a little bit . |
| 9 | She heard his step on the floor , and then his hands warm on her own , moving them just a little , and then on her feet , pulling them further from under the brown wool folds of her skirt . |
| 10 | Now whether it means that in the short term they all land on your desk , and you give them just a superficial examination I do n't know . |
| 11 | Mummy did try to help them just a teeny weeny bit cos hyacinths , he 's going to show them at the Airdrie Town Hall , Bobby . |
| 12 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you can pay me just a bit ’ . |
| 14 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 15 | ‘ Please indulge me just a moment , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He glanced at his watch , became distracted : ‘ Forgive me just a moment — kitchen duties . |
| 17 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 18 | Member will give me just a moment to finish the point that I am making I shall come to that . |
| 19 | ‘ Give me just a little more time , ’ said Karen . |
| 20 | ‘ Tessy , do n't you love me just a little now ? ’ |
| 21 | Can you give me just a few moments ? |
| 22 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 23 | If you give me just a second … a second or two … just … ’ |
| 24 | Could you give me just a little clarification on that |
| 25 | ‘ One day you are going to tell me just a little bit more of this experience of yours . ’ |
| 26 | give me just a little more time |
| 27 | Give me just a little more time and our love will surely show |
| 28 | For , having barely embarked on their first Industrial Revolution , many Third World nations tend to regard their tribal peoples with the same antagonism which caused the " maturer " nations to extinguish theirs just a century earlier . |
| 29 | Are you just a cabbage ? he wondered — brain-dead ? or are you trying to warn us about something ? |
| 30 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |