Example sentences of "just [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're just wasting time . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're just wasting time . |
| 3 | Sounds to me as though they 're just sell stuff , I I do n't know ! |
| 4 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 5 | Has he asked you to do more than just bring film of Piper 's records ? ’ |
| 6 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |
| 7 | ‘ There was terrible friction between the two of them ; they obviously argued badly , Mark was having problems of one sort and another , and Luke Denner … ’ she gave a harsh laugh ‘ … well , he … he just made life hard , did n't give Mark a chance , any help . |
| 8 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 9 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 10 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 11 | A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher . |
| 12 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |
| 13 | She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose . |
| 14 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 15 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 16 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 17 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 18 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 19 | When the Dauphine had just given birth ( in front of numerous ambassadors , foreign princes and courtiers ) , a sheep was skinned alive in her bedroom so that the exhausted mother could be wrapped in its fleece . |
| 20 | ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . |
| 21 | How her mother had just given birth to another child , her fifth , this time a boy . |
| 22 | Post-natal depression is a distressing phenomenon where women who have just given birth feel fed up , weepy , do n't like the baby , do n't want to be mothers , ca n't really take an interest in it . |
| 23 | We were just cooking dinner in the kitchen when in walked Audrey Fyfe and Margaret Russell , friends from the Lothian section of the CTC ! |
| 24 | It 's so repetitive marking your scale and people just lose concentration and I can do this you know and the next minute you you you 've gone up in twos instead of ones . |
| 25 | WHEN pressed to name some rich and famous people who are customers at his London restaurants , Viscount Linley replied : ‘ As I was telling the Queen the other night , I just hate name-dropping . ’ |
| 26 | You start day-dreaming just to kill time . |
| 27 | They just make indie music because they 're middle class teenagers who want to get rid of a bit of angst and I do n't think that is what Curve are about . |
| 28 | ‘ Just make love to me , Penry , please . |
| 29 | Just make contact . ’ |
| 30 | All these totally ludicrous things just make work for everyone , and the screws put pressure on the inmates with such pointless regulations as well as causing lots of paperwork for themselves . |