Example sentences of "just [vb base] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just hate not being able to put my finger on a map and say ‘ I 'm there . ’ ’ |
| 2 | Just better not , ’ he said , and hung up . |
| 3 | ‘ I just expect not to be leered at and not to have my correspondence read . |
| 4 | just put not paid and keep going till the end of the year . |
| 5 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 6 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 7 | Yes , you must have many people who do n't claim at all on this insurance , they have no need to claim or just decide not to . |
| 8 | If you feel you 're going to be sick , just try not to be , and do n't drink any more till it passes off , otherwise it 'll all be wasted , wo n't it ? |
| 9 | Just try not to do anything silly — please , for your own sake . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not that we think it 's wrong to have girl-friends , we just choose not to at the moment . |
| 11 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 12 | The Racal twins : their share prices just do not add up Outlook . |
| 13 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 14 | In truth , however , we just do not know whether this is impossible . |
| 15 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 16 | They just do not taste as nice . |
| 17 | What if one day you just do not have time ? |
| 18 | Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ? |
| 19 | That there is no popular opposition is testimony not only to how successful they have been , but also to the fact that there appears to be simply no desirable alternative : the British just do not like their politicians enough to want them made head of state . |
| 20 | The first reason is because people experience it much less than they used to and just do not know how to react — it is beyond their experience . |
| 21 | Many of the families I have worked with will ask , for example , how to engage the services of an undertaker because they just do not know . |
| 22 | Channell remembered a curious phone call from him — not an everyday occurrence , and Channell was on respectful tenterhooks — — in which the president began : ‘ I just do not understand Tip O'Neill . |
| 23 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 24 | Donald Unwin , chief engineer at the association 's Testing and Research Laboratory , said ‘ Many manufacturers just do not look at the problem through the eyes of the Third World countries . |
| 25 | ‘ We just do not know whether economic wind generators , still less economic wave-power and geothermal power , is going to be developed , ’ he said . |
| 26 | May , 1982 , ‘ The Argentinian air force has the latest attack aircraft and missiles , which we just do not have . |
| 27 | Why he allows those things we just do not know . |
| 28 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 29 | ‘ These pointless deaths just do not seem to stop . ’ |
| 30 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |