Example sentences of "just something [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't think of this as a sport ; it 's just something that has to be done . ’ |
| 3 | On the credit side , it should be said that there is now an acute awareness in the Soviet Union and the East European countries that pollution is a social and political issue and not just something that can be categorized vaguely as an environmental problem and shoved to the debit side of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 4 | The practical aftermath of death seems to stimulate his curiosity these days ; nothing urgent , mind you , just something that begins to get in your mind when you 're watching blood move in and out of your body for half the day . |
| 5 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
| 6 | ‘ They never made me go to auditions — it was just something that came up . |
| 7 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 8 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 9 | It would be nice to see him married like the others , but it 's just something that I 've got to accept . |
| 10 | Keeping a pet is not like owning a video , though , a pet is not just something that is there for your entertainment , it is something that you have to care for . |
| 11 | Walking , it seems , is just something that we do , like breathing . |
| 12 | I suppose it 's just something that I 've learned to live with . |
| 13 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 15 | It was just something that happened . |
| 16 | It was just something that happened . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just something that happens between two people . |
| 18 | ‘ I bathe topless in the South of France , I bathe topless in my garden — it 's just something that I do , ’ she says . |
| 19 | It was just something that someone said . |
| 20 | Just something that ignited enough to get a flame onto his seat . |
| 21 | Everybody was there to be academically acknowledged at the highest level they could and sport was just something that came as well . |
| 22 | It 's just something that happens in my brain . ’ |
| 23 | Erm just something that came into my head e er cos the alarm switched on with your programme and it was a gentleman talking about the different taxes and what have you |
| 24 | And it should n't just something that 's forced . |
| 25 | They simply continued to secure him , coldly and efficiently , as if this was just something that had to be done and as if there was no particular feeling in doing it . |
| 26 | It 's just something that happens to me , I do n't know why . |
| 27 | It 's just something that 's very big , compared to what we want . |
| 28 | It was just something that sometimes happened . |
| 29 | There 's just something that does n't seem right about it . ’ |
| 30 | When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket . |