Example sentences of "they just [verb] " in BNC.

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1 David had a prawn salad sandwich and a cheese and onion sandwich and I 'm not kidding you , the sandwich was like that , they just filled it and it was
2 at the beginning , I do n't think they like it they just smoke , and then obviously it becomes it 's a drug and then , you know they ca n't get off it obviously and le
3 th they just smoke , smoke socially .
4 They just drive round perhaps driving it parking it up and having a walk
5 So he did , and it was working , and he was so , they just connect it from outside ,
6 They just says , Where you living again ?
7 They just straightened
8 I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’
9 They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’
10 They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ?
11 I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies .
12 They just saw the opportunity this time and took it — but it could have been prevented . ’
13 They just turn up with family-sized tins of baked beans , some Ambrosia creamed rice and a sweet German wine box .
14 ‘ If you are going to set up things for volunteers , you need to make sure that you 've got your act together because otherwise , if they just turn up and muddle along , they wo n't stay .
15 And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there .
16 They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards .
17 Or do they just make more noise ?
18 I mean they do n't they just make everybody worse off .
19 They just told me he was .
20 It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor .
21 I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly .
22 They just knew .
23 But oh they could rustle it and they 'd they just knew by the just did this with it you know they would know .
24 Did n't you They just knew ,
25 The first time they came it was for ‘ Bob-a-job ’ week , but now they just come .
26 ‘ If someone comes in with a litter of four-month-old puppies and I take them in , would you believe they just come back six months later with the bitch 's next log !
27 They say , " These girls have no ambition , they just come out of school and make babies . "
28 They just come out to Jamaica , scratch out a nest and lay eggs that hatch into pink ’ ’ Jamaicans . ’
29 I mean they do it just do n't make an effort they just come round demanding money .
30 He says there are lots of tourists and it 's a shame they just come for that .
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