Example sentences of "just [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 2 | He was subjected to beatings just for being black . |
| 3 | Some employees have been sacked just for being HIV positive . |
| 4 | I mean , people get slagged off just for being on The Word , whether they 're any good or not . |
| 5 | In those days , they gave you a raise just for being in another movie . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't get promoted just for being a bastard , you know , ’ Rogers said . |
| 7 | If the rat is tested just after being taught it does well . |
| 8 | A rat tested about 24 hours after being taught does as well as one tested just after being taught , and much better than one tested 12 hours after being taught . |
| 9 | Moreover , his tale might be a wild distortion of the fate of the Norwegian Eric Bloodaxe , whose father was called Harald , and who was killed just after being expelled from his Northumbrian kingdom in 954 . |
| 10 | Just of is n't it . |
| 11 | Their response reminds one of Ribbentrop 's description of the Kremlin banquet with Stalin , held to celebrate the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 : ‘ It was just like being with old party comrades . ’ |
| 12 | Effectively you ‘ field ’ their excuse , just like being on a cricket field and throwing back a ball that 's been hit towards you . |
| 13 | Mr I really should say Ainsley , it 's just like being back in Trinity College with you . |
| 14 | It was all just like being given a new recipe or a knitting pattern . |
| 15 | It was just like being back at school . |
| 16 | It would be just like being asleep in a box . |
| 17 | It 's just like being back in the dorm . ) |
| 18 | It 's great it 's just like being in a video game except you 're completely involved in it . |
| 19 | It 's great it 's just like being in a video game except you 're completely involved in it . |
| 20 | It was just like being at the cinema , but it 's just like being , it 's just like being in the room again , because of the conversation 's back . |
| 21 | It was just like being at the cinema , but it 's just like being , it 's just like being in the room again , because of the conversation 's back . |
| 22 | It was just like being at the cinema , but it 's just like being , it 's just like being in the room again , because of the conversation 's back . |
| 23 | Her job might be one of considerable stress and strain , but she really had been incredibly lucky , Laura told herself , not just in being able to afford to buy a penthouse apartment in this large , architectually prestigious warehouse development beside the river at Wapping , but also in managing to persuade her old school-friend Julie to come and share the apartment with her . |
| 24 | Advice to parents about risk , whether primary or secondary , does not prevent the child from being handicapped , just from being born . |
| 25 | Face crushed face , but even the humiliated ones , the ones pushed away , the third-raters and the defeated ones , even those — from a certain distance imposed by the law of hierarchy , it 's true — still moved toward the front , showing here and there from behind the first-rate , titled ones , if only as fragments : an ear , a piece of temple , a cheek or a jaw … just to be closer to the Emperor 's eye ! |
| 26 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 27 | The greatest acting role in an audition is to appear just to be yourself . |
| 28 | ‘ OK , we 'll make it half-eight just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 29 | Just to be clear , what 's this ‘ prig ’ , ‘ hypocrite ’ . |
| 30 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |