Example sentences of "just [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therapy was aimed at helping the parents establish a more balanced and satisfactory relationship , learning to negotiate rather than lapse into their habitual pattern of attack and withdraw at the same time as providing a reward programme for Luke just to sit on the lavatory . |
| 2 | Many said it was bliss just to sit on the bales of straw and listen to the music . |
| 3 | The supposition being that it 's always easier for the offspring just to sit on the nest and wait for the parent . |
| 4 | It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty , of overwork , of perpetual near-incarceration , of eternal nagging demands , and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire . |
| 5 | Och , just round to my Mother 's , basically , just to get out the house — I 've never been one just to sit in listening to the Central Heating switching itself off and on . |
| 6 | Are these people afraid to expose themselves in a panel condemning the National Health Service or just to sit in the background and make any comments ? |
| 7 | I I do n't want to run out there just to sit in a house |
| 8 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 9 | Just , just to sprinkle on water on them . |
| 10 | ‘ No particular place , just to drive for the joy of it , side by side into the rising sun . |
| 11 | Yes , I was very successful in that respect as well that er , my children , I taught them that just to wait till the January sales and they 'd get what they wanted for half the price ! |
| 12 | And just to round off the day the rain stops , the Cleveland cocktail lifts and a pale , weak sun sticks his nose out from behind the clouds . |
| 13 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 14 | It 'll be worth putting a couple of pavers on there just to cope with the track of the pa er the wheels going in . |
| 15 | Boys seem to make an effort only if they are going into a situation where they know they might meet someone they fancy , whereas lots of girls I know will put on make-up just to go to the local shop ! |
| 16 | So it would n't be too big a step just to go to Lyness really it was kind of a natural thing ? |
| 17 | Just to go to so and so . |
| 18 | For some reason I thought it would be better just to go to her so she could see I was all right . ’ |
| 19 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 20 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 21 | Er champion of champions we 've , I bought some prizes for the champion of champions , and food er just to go with the trophies er Keith again was our judge and erm knowing that he does n't willingly accept money , he wants to come and do it for nothing erm how many proposed that we buy him something a bottle to take with him , so we bought him a bottle of wine to take with him and er that was the three pound . |
| 22 | What I , what I 'd like to do now is , is just to go through er your existing arrangements that you have with er life assurance policies and we know that er you 've got some existing cover as far as er your mortgage is concerned , erm has erm has Mrs Goodwin got any er life cover ? |
| 23 | Erm no I 'd like just to go through that if I can . |
| 24 | Erm , and we had a a little meeting Margaret , Joan and I , just to go through the agenda for today , and we thought that , we th perhaps five was a better number , erm , because we thought Maisie would be on as she does the bookings , but we would n't expect you to do anything else , Maisie , yeah . |
| 25 | So would it very boring just to go through this again ? confusion . |
| 26 | Erm just to go over the payments for the car park which has come up actually under community industries and the plants , the total being now for plants it was four hundred and forty four pounds er |
| 27 | just to go under the |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 29 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |
| 30 | We want people just to go round the floor . ’ |