Example sentences of "just [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | just where I have fallen , |
| 2 | ‘ This is n't just where I live , it 's where I work . |
| 3 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Actually , if it happened just once I would n't go to anyone . ’ |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | Just once I waste my breath in armadillo country . |
| 7 | I think it 'd be better it 's just than I 'm under a wee bit of pressure at the moment to be in thirty five different locations |
| 8 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 9 | ‘ No , you 're supposed to abandon Masquerade just so I can earn a few thousand dollars . ’ |
| 10 | It was so enjoyable that at the headwall I took a line up the steepest part , just so I could play about hanging from the holds . |
| 11 | ‘ We went to one beforehand just so I could see what it was like and what you did . |
| 12 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 14 | I 've assembled his biography brick by brick , just so I can have the pleasure of taking it apart . |
| 15 | She really believed I would put up with anything she threw at me just so I could possess her . |
| 16 | Perhaps I should remove some of this wet clothing , just so I can see the extent of your injuries . ’ |
| 17 | I had this brilliant idea to blend into the scenery just so I could keep an eye on you . |
| 18 | Just so I know exactly what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , no , that 's just so I can see the band better . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd go into Fortnum 's and try on a sable coat just so I would n't die before I 'd worn one . |
| 21 | I must n't slump into scum lingua just cos I 'm excited , Biff told himself . |
| 22 | Sort of keep on so that you 're building on that all the time so you think right okay I know how to do capital at the start , full stop at the end , keep that do n't let that go just cos I 'm concentrating on something else . |
| 23 | just cos I saved you a green there love . |
| 24 | Just cos I 'm leaving I 've got ta . |
| 25 | But I mean I 'm already starting stopping later , unintentionally you know , just cos I wan na finish something . |
| 26 | Just cos I 'm fit you see . |
| 27 | Just cos I play on my computer and you do n't |
| 28 | And y just cos I 'm used like used to phoning I just . |
| 29 | It 's just cos I , I could n't do a lot more about that one . |
| 30 | Just cos I am . |