Example sentences of "or just [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Or just that you 're frightened to move ? |
2 | Now can you write out either now or just before I or when I 've gone what you 're going to do |
3 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
4 | Was that just after the second war or just afore it ? |
5 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
6 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
7 | DEATH AS LIFE 'S END ( the Doctor ) , as a crime ( the Detective ) , or just as butchery . |
8 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
9 | Or just when there reviews ? |
10 | Still others questioned whether any war could ever be worthwhile or just when fought between Christian and Christian ; the doctrine of Christian love , such as Langland voiced in Piers Plowman , seemed incompatible with war . |
11 | So they would immediately have turned to the second , legislative stage : they would have tried to discover which decision was more sensible or just or democratic or would otherwise better serve the community . |
12 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |
13 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
14 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
15 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |