Example sentences of "just do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we just do well |
| 2 | ‘ Well , just do anyway . ’ |
| 3 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 4 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 5 | The Racal twins : their share prices just do not add up Outlook . |
| 6 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 7 | In truth , however , we just do not know whether this is impossible . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They just do not taste as nice . |
| 10 | What if one day you just do not have time ? |
| 11 | Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We just do not know whether economic wind generators , still less economic wave-power and geothermal power , is going to be developed , ’ he said . |
| 19 | May , 1982 , ‘ The Argentinian air force has the latest attack aircraft and missiles , which we just do not have . |
| 20 | Why he allows those things we just do not know . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ These pointless deaths just do not seem to stop . ’ |
| 23 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |
| 24 | The colour photos I have seen of this fish just do not do him justice . |
| 25 | you just do not have enough time , |
| 26 | I just do not understand that girl . ’ |
| 27 | For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition . |
| 28 | Somehow they just do not look right and blend . |
| 29 | The masses just do not have the information or expertise to interpret social problems , let alone to propose solutions for them . |
| 30 | They are not lazy , they just do not think in the free-flowing goal-oriented way that the ‘ butterflies ’ do . |